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Missing overflow exception message in ocamlopt

Jakob Lichtenberg
- Jon Harrop
  - Richard Jones
    - Gerd Stolpmann
    - Jon Harrop
  - Jakob Lichtenberg
    - Robert Roessler
- Xavier Leroy
  - Jakob Lichtenberg

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From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Missing overflow exception message in ocamlopt

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:03:20PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 19:46, Jakob Lichtenberg wrote:
> > When I compile the following program as byte code I see a stack overflow
> > (expected).  When using ocamlopt it seems that the program dies and I do
> > not see the expected overflow exception?
> 
> OCaml doesn't always throw the Stack_overflow exception from native code. On 
> some systems it seg faults.

Does it _ever_ throw a Stack_overflow in native code??  I've never
seen it.

Rich.

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