[Zope-dev] Restricted Compiler issues on FreeBSD? (Core Dumps...waaa!)

[Jens Vagelpohl]

have you read about the python crash-bug stemming from tiny thread 
stack sizes on freebsd and applied the patch? the mailing list 
archives should tell you what to do.

jens


On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 09:43 , Jeffrey P Shell wrote:

> For a while now, Tracker has been core dumping on my with Zope 2.5.1 
> with
> both Python 2.1.2 and 2.1.3 on FreeBSD 4.5 (Intel).  The culprit 
> seems to be
> expressions that are heavy on parenthesis.  For example, the following
> works:
>
>     <!--#let val="(init or (type == 'simple'
>                                 and (_['sequence-key']
>                                            not in ['requester',
>                                                    'supporter',
>                                                    'priority',
>                                                    'stage'])
>                          )) and _['sequence-item']"-->
>
>
> But it core dumps when changed to:
>
>     <!--#let val="((init or (type == 'simple'
>                                 and (_['sequence-key']
>                                            not in ['requester',
>                                                    'supporter',
>                                                    'priority',
>                                                    'stage'])
>                          )) and _['sequence-item'])"-->
>
>
> Don't ask me what this expression does - I just kept whittling at it 
> until
> the crashes stopped.  Then I went and found quite a few others.  I 
> made a
> lot of fixes by turning complex expressions into many smaller ones 
> inside a
> single 'let' tag.
>
> Does anyone know other possible fixes for this issue?  Is there some 
> Python
> stack size setting I can set at compile time?  I have some other 
> code that
> has not survived the move to Zope 2.5.x/Python 2.1.x/FreeBSD.
>
> FWIW, the Python 2.1.2 used was from the BSD Ports, while the 2.1.3 was
> compiled by hand.
>
> --
> Jeffrey P Shell
> www.cuemedia.com
>
>
>
>
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