From 79b52b7261fb80392c660d296b71b4c44acf2565 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Peters Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:37:10 +0000 Subject: Boosted the stack reservation for python.exe and python_w.exe from the default 1MB to 2 million bytes. The test suite passes with -uall again (test_compiler no longer drives WinXP into an insane state). --- Misc/NEWS | 10 ++++++++++ PCbuild/python.vcproj | 3 +++ PCbuild/pythonw.vcproj | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 632d446..c4a1cf1 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -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 --- diff --git a/PCbuild/python.vcproj b/PCbuild/python.vcproj index 0c3c4b6..722bf43 100644 --- a/PCbuild/python.vcproj +++ b/PCbuild/python.vcproj @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ GenerateDebugInformation="TRUE" ProgramDatabaseFile=".\./python.pdb" SubSystem="1" + StackReserveSize="2000000" BaseAddress="0x1d000000" TargetMachine="1"/>