Derek Elkins wrote:
While perhaps for a simple throw-away program it may be beneficial to write code that allocates unnecessary stack, I personally consider unnecessary stack use a bug. A stack overflow, to me, is always indicative of a bug.
The "bug" is in ghc stack management. Why is it so important that the stack size is arbitrarily limited? It's just an intermediate data structure, no different from any other intermediate data structure you may build on the heap (well apart from it's efficiency). But I guess we would be in danger of having our programs run too fast if folk were silly enough to make use of the stack. So perhaps the current ghc defaults are too generous. What limit do you think should be placed on the stack size that a non buggy program can use? Regards -- Adrian Hey