#8189: Default to infinite stack size? -------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: nh2 | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Runtime | Version: 7.6.3 System | Keywords: Resolution: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Operating System: | Difficulty: Easy (less than 1 hour) Unknown/Multiple | Blocked By: Type of failure: Runtime | Related Tickets: crash | Test Case: | Blocking: | -------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Comment (by Austin Seipp <aseipp@…>): In [changeset:d85044f6b201eae0a9e453b89c0433608e0778f0/ghc]: {{{ #!CommitTicketReference repository="ghc" revision="d85044f6b201eae0a9e453b89c0433608e0778f0" Default to infinite stack size (#8189) When servicing a stack overflows, only throw an exception to the given thread if the user explicitly set a max stack size, using +RTS -K. Otherwise just service it normally and grow the stack. In case we actually run out of *heap* (stack chuncks are allocated on the heap), then we need to bail by calling the stackOverflow() hook and exit immediately. Authored-by: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com> }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8189#comment:9> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler