[Cuis-dev] Infinite recursions

[Luciano Notarfrancesco]

Cool, I tested it with some examples and works fine, thanks.
Does it have any impact on performance? Why is it not active by default?
And wouldn’t it be better to get a notification from the VM when it’s about
to run out of memory instead of crashing? I can imagine how this can be
annoying for new students, but stability is important for all of us, and
even experienced Smalltalkers can introduce infinite recursions without
realizing it. I usually work with an image that I have open and running for
months at a time, and it is very stable except for infinite recursions (I
think over the last few years it crashed only once for other reason).

On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 at 18:33 Hernán Wilkinson <hernan.wilkinson at 10pines.com>
wrote:

> Hi Luciano,
>  I solved that issue that is very common with new students... What I did
> is a process that checks the size of the stack of each process and if it is
> greater than X it stops the process and opens a debugger
>  You can activate it from the Process Browser window. Right click on the
> process list and select "start StackSizeWatcher"
>  You can look at the StackSizeWatcher class to see how it works.
>
> Cheers
> Hernan.
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 5:11 AM Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev <
> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>
>> We might have talked about this here before, I’m not sure.
>>
>> In my experience with Cuis crashes are very very rare, except for
>> infinite recursions. Is there any way for Cuis to detect infinite
>> recursions and signal an exception instead of crashing?
>>
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