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03/10/2011

10:44 PM Ruby Bug #4492: Segfault on successive stack overflows

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On a Mac, this snippet crashes Ruby:
def f(*x); end
begin
f(*(0..120000))
rescue
nil
end
f(*(0..120000))
H... catwell (Pierre Chapuis)

10:39 PM Ruby Bug #4492 (Closed): Segfault on successive stack overflows

On a Mac, this snippet crashes Ruby:
```
def f(*x); end
begin
f(*(0..120000))
rescue
nil
end
f(*(0..120000))
```
Here is the result when run with ruby:
```
segfaulter.rb:7: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.... catwell (Pierre Chapuis)