24 Mar
2004
24 Mar
'04
6:42 p.m.
Osma Suominen wrote at 2004-3-24 01:56 +0200:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Dieter Maurer wrote:
It can be caused by anything that recurses. Usually, the Python interpreter raises a "RuntimeError, maximal recursion depth exceeded" before an overflow of the runtime stack but I had set the recursion limit very generously.
Did you increase the recursion limit yourself? As I understand it, it defaults to a sane, system-dependent value so the SIGSEGV should never happen unless you tweak the limit yourself.
I wrote "I had set the recursion limit ...". This is the answer to your question. You got it before you asked... -- Dieter