[Python-Dev] FreeBSD 7 amd64 and large memory tests

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I haven't yet tried posting a query to a FreeBSD list, as it could simply
> be a bug on amd64, but I was wondering whether there was anything (other
> than deactivating tests and documenting use of ulimit -v on this
> platform) that could be done to work around this behaviour.

I think it should be possible to debug this (for people with access to
such a system, and appropriate skills).

I find it hard to believe that a large malloc will simply crash the
process, rather than returning NULL. More likely, there is a NULL
returned somewhere, and Python (or libc) fails to check for it.

Regards,
Martni