[Python-Dev] Preventing recursion core dumps (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:37:01 -0600

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 05:58:45PM +0200, Vladimir Marangozov wrote:

On a second thought, I think this would be a bad idea, even if we manage to tweak the stack limits on most platforms. We would loose determinism = loose control -- no good. A depth-first algorithm may succeed on one machine, and fail on another.

So what? We don't limit the amount of memory you can allocate on all machines just because your program may run out of memory on some machine. It seems like the same thing to me.

Neil