[Python-Dev] simple syntax error bombs interpreter

Michael Hudson mwh21@cam.ac.uk
12 Jul 2000 18:21:14 +0100


Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 06:59:20PM +0200, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 05:48:16PM +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:
> > > "Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com> writes:
> > > Hmm.  Mine doesn't.  What platform, stack, etc?
> > 
> > Mine does crash. 
> 
> Eh, Linux (RedHat 6.1), both 2.0b1-CVS-tree (recent) and python 1.6a2
> (couple of weeks old) that is.

Oh yeah; the same.  Python built from a checkout about half an hour
ago (so there's probably only been twenty or so checkins since
then...).

Next question: gc or not gc?  My not crashing one had gc on, am now
building one with gc off

...
[just got to _sre.c]
...

Nope.  Steady as a rock.  I'll leave this one to someone who has a
problem!

Cheers,
M.