[Python-Dev] segmentation fault with python2.3a0 from cvs

[Steve Holden]

Gerson Kurz wrote ...

> Tim Peters wrote
> > There's something you can do about it, though:  don't create 4+MB
> > source files to begin with.  I don't take problems from such tomfoolery
> > seriously, although the younger folks here might <wink>.
>
> Ok, here is a 55 bytes sourcecode:
>
> b = {}
> for i in range(1000000):
>     b[i] = [0] * 60
>
> --> segfault with cygwin.
>

This is a fixed bug, due to a problem with malloc on the Cygwin platform, I
believe. From what I can remember it's been fixed, but it wasn't directly a
Python bug to start with.

regards
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