Julia: Too long StackOverflowError backtrace

[mauro3]

Running this produces 80000 lines of errors:

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julia> using Rotations, StaticArrays

julia> (::Type{Rotations.RotMatrix{N,T,L}})(sa::StaticArrays.StaticMatrix) where {N,T,L} =
           Rotations.RotMatrix(sa)                                                                                                                                       

julia> RotMatrix(-4.5)                                                                                                                                                   
ERROR: StackOverflowError:                                                                                                                                               
Stacktrace:                                                                                                                                                              
 [1] Rotations.RotMatrix(::StaticArrays.SArray{Tuple{2,2},Float64,2,4}) at /home/mauro/.julia/v0.6/Rotations/src/core_types.jl:80                                        
 [2] Rotations.RotMatrix{2,Float64,4}(::StaticArrays.SArray{Tuple{2,2},Float64,2,4}) at ./REPL[3]:1                                                                      
...
 [79999] Rotations.RotMatrix(::StaticArrays.SArray{Tuple{2,2},Float64,2,4}) at /home/mauro/.julia/v0.6/Rotations/src/core_types.jl:80                                    
 [80000] Rotations.RotMatrix{2,Float64,4}(::StaticArrays.SArray{Tuple{2,2},Float64,2,4}) at ./REPL[3]:1

Same on 0.6.1

[mauro3]

Note when defining instead:

julia> (::Type{Rotations.RotMatrix{N,T,L}})(sa::StaticArrays.StaticMatrix) where {N,T,L} =
           Rotations.RotMatrix{N,T,L}(sa)                                                                                                                                

julia> RotMatrix(-4.5)                                                                                                                                                   
ERROR: StackOverflowError:                                                                                                                                               
Stacktrace:                                                                                                                                                              
 [1] Rotations.RotMatrix{2,Float64,4}(::StaticArrays.SArray{Tuple{2,2},Float64,2,4}) at ./REPL[2]:1 (repeats 80000 times)                                                

then the lines get folded into one. I guess the problem is the 2-fold infinite recursion.

[mauro3]

Simpler:

julia> g(x) = h(x)                                                                                                                                                       
g (generic function with 1 method)                                                                                                                                       

julia> h(x) = g(x)                                                                                                                                                       
h (generic function with 1 method)                                                                                                                                       

julia> g(5)
ERROR: StackOverflowError:                                                                                                                                               
Stacktrace:             
....
 [79998] h(::Int64) at ./REPL[4]:1                                                                                                                                       
 [79999] g(::Int64) at ./REPL[3]:1                                                                                                                                       
 [80000] h(::Int64) at ./REPL[4]:1                                                                                                                                       

whereas a simple recursion throws a good error:

julia> f(x) = f(x)                                                                                                                                                       
f (generic function with 1 method)                                                                                                                                       

julia> f(5)                                                                                                                                                              
ERROR: StackOverflowError:                                                                                                                                               
Stacktrace:                                                                                                                                                              
 [1] f(::Int64) at ./REPL[1]:1 (repeats 80000 times)                                                                                                                     

[KristofferC]

Random keywords to make this easier to find: Long stacktrace in stackoverflow recursion.