Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....

Tue Jan 13 06:00:14 EST 2015

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>:
> On 1/13/2015 1:13 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>>> def f(): sys.setrecursionlimit(sys.getrecursionlimit()+1) or f()
>> ...
>>>>> f()
>> Segmentation fault
>>>> But otherwise, yes. You shouldn't be able to segfault Python with
>> Python code.
>> I would have expected an out-of-memory error. If there is not already
> a crash issue on the tracker for this, you could add one.

Linux grants memory it doesn't have. The truth comes out as a
segmentation fault. Call it modern banking.
The code above, though, shouldn't consume memory since it is a simple
tail-recursive loop.
Marko