[Python-Dev] segmentation fault with python2.3a0 from cvs (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:09:38 -0400

[Gerson Kurz]

... I compiled with DevStudio 6, and the import works (at least in the debug build, but thats the only one I checked). I compiled python unter cygwin using "--with-pydebug", but to the same effect: cygwins' python.exe raises a segmentation fault. So maybe, just maybe, its a fault of cygwin ?

Dunno. If cygwin emulates the Linux malloc overcommitment policies, memory faults of this nature are unavoidable, and there's nothing we can do about it. There's something you can do about it, though: don't create 4+MB source files to begin with. I don't take problems from such tomfoolery seriously, although the younger folks here might .