[Pythonmac-SIG] test_re

[Steven D. Majewski]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Bob Savage wrote:

> on 5/18/01 9:57 PM, ryanr@ezlink.com wrote:
> > 
> > test_re
> > make: *** [test] Segmentation fault
> > 
> 
> Yes, that's mentioned in the readme as the default allocation is too small
> or something. I have no idea how to fix that, but the impression I got was
> that it had something to do with the testing circumstances only. Perhaps you
> should try doing something with the re module and see if it works, and
> respond to the list with the results.

You can type, in tcsh: "limit stack 4096" 
or in sh/bash : "ulimit -s 4096" 

To increase the stack resource limit.


But Jack is probably right that it's a bug that it segfaults 
rather than dieing more gracefully. 

-- Steve Majewski