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  Re: python segfault Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2012-03-28 00:45 +0200

#22258 — Re: python segfault

Am 28.03.2012 00:27, schrieb Michael Poeltl:
> hi,
> 
> can anybody tell why this 'little stupid *thing* of code' let's python-3.2.2, 2.6.X or python 2.7.2 segfault?

The code segfaults because you have increased the recursion limit. The
amount of recursions is limited by the stack size. A C program with a
usually stack size can have about 4000 recursions. Python takes at least
two stack levels for each recursion.

The documentation
http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.setrecursionlimit contains a
warning, too.

Christian

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