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Missing overflow exception message in ocamlopt

Jakob Lichtenberg
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From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Missing overflow exception message in ocamlopt

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.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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