[issue3850] find_recursion_limit.py is broken

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Sat Sep 13 14:08:37 CEST 2008


Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> On my Macbook, it segfaults; perhaps that docstring applied only 
> to MacOS 9?

Well, I just tried under Windows and the interpreter neither segfaults
nor prints a MemoryError, it aborts silently. I guess the comment is
either out of date or too optimistic about a supposedly deterministic
behaviour of C stack overflows on those platforms.

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