Why are some infinite recursion stack overflows hard to deal with?

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 10:58:39AM -0400, Alex wrote:

> > Python has a hack to try to deal with that: it checks bounds on the
> > recursion itself. However, Python's guess is a bit off on windows.

> It seems to be a bit off on Linux, too.  That's where I'm getting the
> segfault.

Hmm... What version of Python, and compiled how ? (Standard distribution
python, or self-compiled ?) I can't reproduce this on vanilla Python 1.5.2,
on BSDI, in any case. I'll try on Linux later.

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