setrecursionlimit

[Gregory Ewing]

Rustom Mody wrote:
> Both the mess in catching numeric overflow as well as stackoverflow looks like
> its C's fault. 
> I consider it as the fault of currently fashionable stock hardware

The sad thing about C is that it doesn't even help you
detect integer overflow in *software*.

Every machine I've ever seen has a flag that gets set
if an integer addition overflows. But C doesn't provide
any portable way of testing that flag, even if you
wanted to.

-- 
Greg