by CBFalconer <cbfalconer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Feb 19, 2007 at 07:07 PM
Wolf Behrenhoff wrote:
>
> Richard Engebretson schrieb:
> > I am running your test on a linux virtual console using nr:longint.
> > Still running after over 125,000 recursions. Don't know ?? 175,000 ...
> > snorrr :-)
>
> Oh! That's interesting!
>
> I did the test under Windows XP (str=string[100])
>
> Turbo Pascal: 140 recursions (depends on the -M setting)
> Free Pascal: 3455 recursions (depends on the -Cs setting)
>
> But 175,000? A difference in three orders of magnitude? Something must
> be VERY different!
It should run for MAXINT recursions and then crash, or crash first.
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