[issue14507] Segfault with deeply nested starmap calls

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Sun Apr 15 16:38:03 CEST 2012


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

> I'm now wondering if starmap() is tickling a bug in PyObject_Call,
> perhaps memory being allocated but not checked for NULL or somesuch.

The issue is that the code paths involved here circumvent recursion checking, so the stack blows up.

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