diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man7/roff.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man7/roff.7 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/roff.7 b/share/man/man7/roff.7 index f625e83adae..480547812af 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/roff.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/roff.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: roff.7,v 1.6 2010/12/09 20:56:30 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: roff.7,v 1.7 2010/12/09 23:01:18 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> @@ -217,6 +217,12 @@ string interpolation syntax described below .Sx ds , but this is rarely useful because every macro definition contains at least one explicit newline character. +.Pp +In order to prevent endless recursion, both groff and +.Xr mandoc 1 +limit the stack depth for expanding macros and strings +to a large, but finite number. +Do not rely on the exact value of this limit. .Ss \&dei Define a .Nm |