[Hugs-users] stack overflow in tail recursive function

[Bruno Schneider]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Daniel Fischer wrote:
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> and this expression is only evaluated if necessary. factorial 20000 builds a thunk of 20000 nested multiplications, this is tried to evaluate when the value is demanded for printing, but the expression is too deeply nested to fit on the stack.
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So it goes to the stack, hum? It thought it would be just a pointer to
some computation type on the heap.

Anyway, thanks for the detailed answer. I asked here because I didn't
test that code on any other compiler/interpreter, so it could be
something related to hugs implementation.


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