[Python-Dev] Preventing recursion core dumps

[Neil Schemenauer]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 05:58:45PM +0200, Vladimir Marangozov wrote:
> On a second thought, I think this would be a bad idea, even if
> we manage to tweak the stack limits on most platforms. We would
> loose determinism = loose control -- no good. A depth-first algorithm
> may succeed on one machine, and fail on another.

So what?  We don't limit the amount of memory you can allocate on all
machines just because your program may run out of memory on some
machine.  It seems like the same thing to me.

  Neil