[Issue 14419] [CTFE] Need infinite loop detection?

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14419

--- Comment #15 from Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> ---
(In reply to yebblies from comment #14)
> (In reply to Martin Nowak from comment #9)
> > If you really think we should fix this, then a time limit for CTFE execution
> > might be feasible.
> 
> An iteration limit would be better than a time limit, because it will not be
> dependent on environmental conditions.  This would need to be configurable
> from the command line etc.
> 
> The compilation would terminate with a nice stack trace, making it easy to
> debug.
> 

So then you just need to decide what is a suitable iteration limit, short.max?
ushort.max?

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