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Re: setrecursionlimit

From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: setrecursionlimit
Date 2016-05-18 11:38 -0600
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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I don't really understand why the system can't track the current top of the
> stack and bottom of the heap, and if they're going to collide, halt the
> process. That would still be kinda awful, in a sudden "your application
> just died" kind of way, but it would be better than "your computer is now
> owned by some hacker in Hong Kong, who is now renting it by the hour to
> some spammer in Texas".

Seems kind of expensive for little benefit to have to make that check
on every function call.

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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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