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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2008-09-03 18:34:34 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2008-09-03 18:34:34 (GMT)
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Issue #3697: "Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow"
could be easily encountered under Windows in debug mode when exercising the recursion limit checking code, due to bogus handling of recursion limit when USE_STACKCHEK was enabled. Reviewed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc on IRC.
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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ What's New in Python 3.0 release candidate 1
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #3697: "Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow"
+ could be easily encountered under Windows in debug mode when exercising
+ the recursion limit checking code, due to bogus handling of recursion
+ limit when USE_STACKCHEK was enabled.
+
- Issue 3639: The _warnings module could segfault the interpreter when
unexpected types were passed in as arguments.