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@@ -75,6 +75,16 @@ Tests Windows ------- +- Boosted the stack reservation for python.exe and pythonw.exe from + the default 1MB to 2MB. Stack frames under VC 7.1 for 2.4 are enough + bigger than under VC 6.0 for 2.3.4 that deeply recursive progams + within the default sys.getrecursionlimit() default value of 1000 were + able to suffer undetected C stack overflows. The standard test program + test_compiler was one such program. If a Python process on Windows + "just vanishes" without a trace, and without an error message of any + kind, but with an exit code of 128, undetected stack overflow may be + the problem. + Mac --- |