although I understand the intntion of 039679f1, consuming all memory in the test program is not a good idea

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diff --git a/test/t/exception.rb b/test/t/exception.rb
index 7ecc51fa8..d43ce8833 100644
--- a/test/t/exception.rb
+++ b/test/t/exception.rb
@@ -318,26 +318,3 @@ end
 assert('Exception#inspect without message') do
   Exception.new.inspect
 end
-
-# very deeply recursive function that stil returns albeit very deeply so
-$test_infinite_recursion    = 0
-TEST_INFINITE_RECURSION_MAX = 1000000
-def test_infinite_recursion
-  $test_infinite_recursion += 1
-  if $test_infinite_recursion > TEST_INFINITE_RECURSION_MAX
-    return $test_infinite_recursion
-  end
-  test_infinite_recursion
-end
-
-assert('Infinite recursion should result in an exception being raised') do
-    a = begin
-          test_infinite_recursion
-        rescue
-          :ok
-        end
-    # OK if an exception was caught, otherwise a number will be stored in a
-    a == :ok
-end
-
-