[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.1084,1.1085

[tim_one at users.sourceforge.net]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv7449/Misc

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Boosted the stack reservation for python.exe and python_w.exe from the
default 1MB to 2 million bytes.  The test suite passes with -uall again
(test_compiler no longer drives WinXP into an insane state).


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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+ - Boosted the stack reservation for python.exe and pythonw.exe from
+   the default 1MB to 2MB.  Stack frames under VC 7.1 for 2.4 are enough
+   bigger than under VC 6.0 for 2.3.4 that deeply recursive progams
+   within the default sys.getrecursionlimit() default value of 1000 were
+   able to suffer undetected C stack overflows.  The standard test program
+   test_compiler was one such program.  If a Python process on Windows
+   "just vanishes" without a trace, and without an error message of any
+   kind, but with an exit code of 128, undetected stack overflow may be
+   the problem.
+ 
  Mac
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