stops compiling

[Kyle Furlong]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> "Kyle Furlong" <kylefurlong at gmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:dvsp6s$23r8$10 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>> To try and make a perfect compiler of course! <g> Or did you just increase 
>>> the stack size? Could I still smash it with say... a million statements?
>> No, I didn't increase the stack size. I put in an exception handler for the 
>> stack overflow exception. It still quits, it just gives a message first. 
> 
> Did you check the results on linux?  That sounds like you're catching a 
> structured exception under windows that doesn't have an analog under any 
> unix system.
> 
> Too bad it's not actually making it so it's capable of handling a 
> seriously long function.. in some auto-code generation scenarios this 
> isn't that odd a case.  I see it come up from time to time on the gcc 
> developers list.  Obviously, failing gracefully is better than failing 
> catastrophically, but it's still failing.
> 
> - Brad

I agree, what about the future, i.e. metaprogramming? I can also think of some reasons for having such a long function. Do 
templates also use such a statement stack?