[New-bugs-announce] [issue25276] test_decimal sometimes crash on PPC64 AIX 3.x

[STINNER Victor]

New submission from STINNER Victor:

This buildbot has low free memory. Maybe some part of _decimal doesn't handle an allocation failure?

http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/PPC64%20AIX%203.x/builds/4173/steps/test/logs/stdio

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[307/399/10] test_decimal
Fatal Python error: Segmentation fault

Current thread 0x00000001 (most recent call first):
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/test_decimal.py", line 444 in eval_equation
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/test_decimal.py", line 321 in eval_line
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/test_decimal.py", line 299 in eval_file
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/test_decimal.py", line 5591 in <lambda>
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/unittest/case.py", line 600 in run
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/unittest/case.py", line 648 in __call__
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/unittest/suite.py", line 122 in run
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/unittest/suite.py", line 84 in __call__
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/unittest/suite.py", line 122 in run
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/unittest/suite.py", line 84 in __call__
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/unittest/runner.py", line 176 in run
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/support/__init__.py", line 1775 in _run_suite
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/support/__init__.py", line 1809 in run_unittest
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/test_decimal.py", line 5598 in test_main
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/libregrtest/runtest.py", line 160 in runtest_inner
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/libregrtest/runtest.py", line 113 in runtest
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/libregrtest/main.py", line 292 in run_tests_sequential
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/libregrtest/main.py", line 334 in run_tests
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/libregrtest/main.py", line 365 in main
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/libregrtest/main.py", line 407 in main
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/libregrtest/main.py", line 429 in main_in_temp_cwd
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/test/__main__.py", line 3 in <module>
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/runpy.py", line 85 in _run_code
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.x.edelsohn-aix-ppc64/build/Lib/runpy.py", line 170 in _run_module_as_main
make: *** [buildbottest] Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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messages: 251919
nosy: haypo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: test_decimal sometimes crash on PPC64 AIX 3.x
versions: Python 3.6

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