Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:
> Still, even though the code is preposterous, the result shouldn't be a
> segfault. I wasn't able to reproduce one myself (using 8.3.7 on
> freebsd 7.2) however.
Yeah, for me it also recurses till the exception is hit, and then
processes that successfully. This is effectively identical to a case
in the standard regression tests, which also intentionally recurses
till stack overflow. Since we have FreeBSD machines in the buildfarm,
it is reasonably safe to conclude that this isn't a generic FreeBSD
bug. I suspect the OP has used some unusual configure/build option
or linked in some nonstandard code that is causing the available
stack space to change unexpectedly.
regards, tom lane
