Re: error messages
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- Subject: [mg12930] Re: [mg12866] error messages
- From: Sean Ross <seanross at worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 03:44:48 -0400
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Dustin wrote: > > (Mathematica 3.00, win95) > > Since error messages in Mathematica are recursive, it isn't too uncommon > to get infinite recursion. What this means is that the error message > has infinite length. If not stopped quickly, it will continue printing > itself faster and faster until it takes up nearly all of my computer's > processing power. > I can normally stop it in under a minute with rapid pressing of the > "abort evaluation" key. Today, however, I came across one which would > not respond to the usual treatment so I pressed "control-alt-delete" to > shut down Mathematica. > > Mathematica refused to respond so I had to shut down the computer and > restart it. Anyone know a way to prevent this? > > Dustin > dsoodak at virtu.sar.usf.edu If you find out how to stop this, let me know. Most of the programs I write can't be stopped by the ctrl . command. Usually, though, I just kill mathematica from the ctrl-alt-delete screen. I rarely have to reboot the machine, but it does happen occasionally. I wish the 256 limit on recursion applied to error messages.
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- From: Dustin <dsoodak@virtu.sar.usf.edu>
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