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Change-Id: I72a6f7acfcff85f380be17dac76501a6f4693776
2024-05-15 14:33:35 -07:00

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Some stack overflow segfaults are fixed 9616 9617 205 Improvements
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The number of nested function calls has been restricted, to detect and report infinite function call recursions. The default maximum call depth is 10,000 and can be set with the max-call-depth option.

This fixes segfaults or the following unhelpful error message in many cases:

error: stack overflow (possible infinite recursion)

Before:

$ nix-instantiate --eval --expr '(x: x x) (x: x x)'
Segmentation fault: 11

After:

$ nix-instantiate --eval --expr '(x: x x) (x: x x)'
error: stack overflow

       at «string»:1:14:
            1| (x: x x) (x: x x)
             |              ^