Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #9136: simple script with infinite function calls causes seg fault
| From: | Zak Greant | Date: | Tue, 06 Feb 2001 23:22:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #9136: simple script with infinite function calls causes seg fault | ||
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Sean wrote:
> Dear Zak:
>
> Because I don't consider it a problem that needs solving. I am probably
> overlooking some notoriously famous algorithm, but I can't think of a
valid
> reason for such functionality to exist unless someone is purposely trying
to
> bring a system to its knees.
I don't think that this is feature (or a bug FTM) - this is just how things
were implemented - a side effect of needing both recursion and allowing
functions to call other functions.
--zak