* New primop "throw <string>" to throw an error. This is like abort,

  only thrown errors are caught by the top-level derivation evaluation
  in nix-env -qa / -i.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/eval.cc b/src/libexpr/eval.cc
index 456bc25f32..552b586250 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/eval.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/eval.cc
@@ -616,6 +616,9 @@ static char * deepestStack = (char *) -1; /* for measuring stack usage */
 
 Expr evalExpr2(EvalState & state, Expr e)
 {
+    /* When changing this function, make sure that you don't cause a
+       (large) increase in stack consumption! */
+    
     char x;
     if (&x < deepestStack) deepestStack = &x;