caolancsnulie caolan mcnamara thu aug 08 2002 121409 0100 matthew french wrote jpl suggested recursion truely useful infinite stack people think infinite stack shouldnt let near compiler well studying engineering rule thumb infinity 10 times bigger could expect use therefore believe infinite stack worked testharness wait petrol pumps years ago little embeded controller spoke dos exactly easiest environment track crashing bugs master logged piteous whinings inherited dos part worked mostly creating end near end project gave extensive long burnin tests sadly overnight tests would always crash obscure reason tracking showed predecessors add new entries end linked list function recursively called following link terminating one showed course died miserably ran stack im sure felt hed done good days work planted bomb c caolan mcnamara caolanskynetie httpwwwskynetiecaolan 353 86 8161184 much insanity little time irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie thu 8 aug 2002 125436 0100 ilug slashdot ew dijkstra humor