Re: runaway recursion in makeinfo

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 12:16:44AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> 
> In term of implementation, it could indeed be solved in the converters.

Should be done in
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=89594d63e7f5fa0796be4c0002d6200219ef5e62

@Gavin, I think that it should go to the release branch.  There are
tests added, so maybe a need to regenerate the test results on the
release branch.

> However, to avoid a risk of loop in a
> converter, I would again propose to break the loop directly in the tree.
> There could be a customization variable to allow the loops.

Should there be something done in the parsers too?

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Pat