[Python-Dev] stack check on Unix: any suggestions? (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@mojam.com (Skip Montanaro)
Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:19:16 -0500 (CDT) 

MAL> The C program can suck memory in large chunks and consume great
MAL> amounts of stack, it just doesn't dump core... (don't know what I'm
MAL> doing wrong here).

Are you overwriting all that memory you malloc with random junk? If not, the stack and the heap may have collided but not corrupted each other.

Skip