Re: A strange way to crash eclipse

From: Joachim Schimpf <j.schimpf_at_icparc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: Thu 21 Jun 2001 09:45:40 AM GMT
Message-ID: <3B31C244.8DBFDD5D@icparc.ic.ac.uk>
Warwick Harvey wrote:
> 
> >
> >       setval(lp_handle,Handle).  % eclipse crashes here!!
> 
> This is not eplex-related (it works just as well with setting a tentative
> value outside the range of an FD variable), nor is it a new bug (it was
> around pre-4.0).
> 
> Still looking into it.

I looked into it. It is because untenable variables have
a (deliberately) cyclic term inside their attribute, which
causes setval to overflow the (C) stack.

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