[Python-Dev] multiple recursion limit bugs

[Jack Jansen]

On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 02:39 , Skip Montanaro wrote:

>
> I've been poking through the open bugs and patches(*).  I've run 
> across a
> few bug reports about this.  There is a very brief mention of this 
> problem
> in the re module doc:
>
>     sre is the default implementation and includes Unicode support, but 
> may
>     run into stack limitations for some patterns.
>
> I recently added an example that demonstrates the problem, but I think 
> the
> main issue is that the limitation needs to be better documented.  We can
> then close most/all of these bug reports as "not a bug" or "known
> implementation limitation".  Does this seem like the right approach?

As long as all the stack overflow possibilities are protected with 
PyOS_CheckStack() calls. In the past that wasn't always the case, and 
this created havoc on operating systems without hardware stack limits.
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