[New-bugs-announce] [issue40021] Throwing an Exception results in stack overflow

[ThePokestarFan]

New submission from ThePokestarFan <sarkaraoyan at gmail.com>:

If I set up a simple recursion exception function, that calls itself every time an error is raised, Python throws a SIGABRT and crashes due to a "Stack Overflow". 

def x():
    try:
        raise Exception()
    except Exception:
        x()

Oddly enough, my system installation of Python 2.7 threw a RuntimeError instead of aborting, which is what I expected.

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components: Interpreter Core, macOS
files: error.log
messages: 364646
nosy: ThePokestarFan, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Throwing an Exception results in stack overflow
type: crash
versions: Python 3.7
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file48984/error.log

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