[issue25323] Bus error: 10 when executing recursive program

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson added the comment:

> You may have to enlarge the C stack

The following might work (e.g., in bash shell)

    ulimit -s 60000

Here the count is in KiB, so that's setting a stack size of about 58.6 MiB.  There appears to be a system-wide limit of close to 64 MiB, so pushing past that could be hard.

Regardless, this isn't really a Python bug: the recursion limit is a safeguard that's there precisely to stop you from running into a hard crash.  If you remove that safeguard (especially without increasing your process stack size), you shouldn't be surprised to get a crash.

As Victor says, you probably need to rework your algorithm.

Suggest closing as "wont fix".

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nosy: +mark.dickinson

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