Segfault instead of stack overflow when passing a Type into infinitely recursing function

[goretkin]

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

julia> f(0)
ERROR: StackOverflowError:
Stacktrace:
 [1] f(::Int64) at ./REPL[1]:1 (repeats 80000 times)

julia> f(Int)
Segmentation fault: 11

This happens on 0.6.0 and 0.6.1 too.

[rfourquet]

On master it stack overflows also with a Int.

[goretkin]

Oh, then this must have been fixed within the last day? Great!

[KristofferC]

Dup of #14284, #17109, #17280, #19285, #21072, #21258, #22853

[StefanKarpinski]

This is highly platform-dependent. Some OSes do a better job than others of reliably throwing a stack overflow.