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| From | Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: setrecursionlimit |
| Date | 2016-05-19 21:04 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <dq5dtfFnlrqU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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Rustom Mody wrote: > Both the mess in catching numeric overflow as well as stackoverflow looks like > its C's fault. > I consider it as the fault of currently fashionable stock hardware The sad thing about C is that it doesn't even help you detect integer overflow in *software*. Every machine I've ever seen has a flag that gets set if an integer addition overflows. But C doesn't provide any portable way of testing that flag, even if you wanted to. -- Greg
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setrecursionlimit Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-19 02:11 +1000
Re: setrecursionlimit Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2016-05-18 09:19 -0700
Re: setrecursionlimit Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-05-18 16:29 +0000
Re: setrecursionlimit Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-19 03:15 +1000
Re: setrecursionlimit Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 11:38 -0600
Re: setrecursionlimit Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2016-05-18 10:47 -0700
Re: setrecursionlimit breamoreboy@gmail.com - 2016-05-18 14:43 -0700
Re: setrecursionlimit Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 20:19 -0700
Re: setrecursionlimit Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-05-19 21:04 +1200
Re: setrecursionlimit Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-05-18 20:11 +0200
Re: setrecursionlimit Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-05-19 21:00 +1200
Re: setrecursionlimit Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2016-05-18 09:56 -0700
Re: setrecursionlimit Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-05-19 11:28 +0100
Re: setrecursionlimit Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-19 10:27 +0100
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