[Python-Dev] Is core dump always a bug? Advice requested
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed May 12 22:15:35 EDT 2004
Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at alum.mit.edu>:
> I think it would only need to check that any path through the loop has a no
> net effect on stack depth -- before branching back to the beginning of the
> loop, it must pop everything it pushed.
If the branching is sufficiently spaghettoid, it might have
trouble identifying any coherent loops or paths.
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