On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 15:03:59 +0000 Mark Shannon <mark@hotpy.org> wrote:
There are two issues here. Portability and changes to behaviour.
Regarding portability, I have to admit that PEP is rather vague. That's my fault; I should have done more implementation first :( FWIW, I have an implementation that should be portable. https://github.com/python/cpython/compare/master...markshannon:pep-overflow-...
I looked through this diff and I'm not sure how this works robustly. This seems to assume: - each thread's stack size is known and is a compile-time constant - Python owns the thread and can compute the stack limit reliably from the current stack frame - the OS allocates stack pages in units of BLOCK_SIZE or more (currently 8kiB) - the OS doesn't use a segmentation scheme that limits stack accesses with a finer granularity than page (or "block") size - it's ok to write memory beyond the current stack top (I can imagine verification tools such as Valgrind complaining about that, though this can be worked around using suppressions) I would be curious if you could elaborate on these points. Regards Antoine.