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  3. February 2013

Re: Recursion in RPG

On 2/14/2013 5:27 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
Hmmm... well, why would there be a hard number? Seems to me, the nature
of a call stack would lend itself to something that doesn't have a hard
number of entries, but rather, a memory limit.

On 2/14/2013 4:21 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

No wonder Chuck couldn't find a hard number. There does not appear to
be one. The same verbiage is in the 5.4 Reference as well as 7.1.
--buck

Good question! Similar to maximum CPU time used, or maximum DASD used,
an OS might choose to restrict a process to a maximum number of recursions.
--buck


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