[Python-Dev] simple syntax error bombs interpreter

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 05:48:16PM +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:
> "Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com> writes:

> > using my latest Python 2.0 build, the interpreter
> > bombs if I type the following two commands:
> > 
> > >>> def a(b):
> > ...     global b
> > ...

> Hmm.  Mine doesn't.  What platform, stack, etc?

Mine does crash. The crash seems to be caused by a refcounting bug: the
error gets detected, com_error() gets called, creates the appropriate error
object, control flows back the way it was supposed to, but between com_error
and PyErr_PrintEx() the error gets eradicated, resulting in a segmentation
fault.

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Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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