#8189: Default to infinite stack size? -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: nh2 | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: Runtime crash | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment (by nh2): Another way to phrase it is: If you have a language that is supposed to perform recursion on arbitrarily large input, and recursion is implemented with a stack, then the stack cannot be limited. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8189#comment:1 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler