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[Francois Berenger <>]

Marc Glisse wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2011, gisworx wrote:
>
> > With one particular dataset, I'm encountering a stack overflow in lazy
> > evaluation within the alpha shape constructor.

Maybe a stupid comment:
there may be some recursive function being used but it is not tail 
recursive so the compiler could not rewrite it as a loop and
then it blows the stack on some large data sets.

However, I don't even know if there is any recursive function in CGAL... :)

F.

> Is a slight increase in the stack size (/STACK) enough to work around this?
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tdkhxaks%28v=VS.100%29.aspx