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

Barry A. Warsaw bwarsaw@beopen.com
Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:53:19 -0400 (EDT)

"GS" == Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:

GS> 10k iterations on my linux box

9143 on mine.

I'll note that Emacs has a similar concept, embodied in max-lisp-eval-depth. The documentation for this variable clearly states that its purpose is to avoid infinite recursions that would overflow the C stack and crash Emacs. On my XEmacs 21.1.10, max-lisp-eval-depth is 500. Lisp tends to be more recursive than Python, but it's also possible that there are fewer ways to `hide' lots of C stack between Lisp function calls.

So random.choice(range(500, 9143)) seems about right to me .

-Barry