Message 158343 - Python tracker

Message158343

Author	pitrou
Recipients	ezio.melotti, kristjan.jonsson, meador.inge, pitrou, progrper, rhettinger, terry.reedy
Date	2012-04-15.17:07:50
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> The existing sys.max_recursion_depth was put in as a defense against > the relatively common mistake of users writing a recursive function > and getting the termination code wrong. I don't think that logic > would apply to intentionally deeply nested data structures or > iterators. Well, we have a history of trying to fix crashers, even when they only occur in weird cases. > Stackoverflows in C are hard to protect against. We could simply re-use the existing infrastructure.

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> The existing sys.max_recursion_depth was put in as a defense against
> the relatively common mistake of users writing a recursive function
> and getting the termination code wrong.   I don't think that logic
> would apply to intentionally deeply nested data structures or
> iterators.

Well, we have a history of trying to fix crashers, even when they only
occur in weird cases.

> Stackoverflows in C are hard to protect against.

We could simply re-use the existing infrastructure.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2012-04-15 17:07:51	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, rhettinger, terry.reedy, kristjan.jonsson, ezio.melotti, meador.inge, progrper
2012-04-15 17:07:50	pitrou	link	issue14507 messages
2012-04-15 17:07:50	pitrou	create