[Python-Dev] Mac OSX issues

[Guido van Rossum]

[Jack]
(BTW all your mail comes poorly folded like shown here.  What's up
with that?)

> I'm +0 on this. The reason I'm not +1 is that 2MB is just as arbitrary 
> as 1MB, and
> it's only picked because it'll make the current set of tests pass. And 
> the
> current set of tests doesn't pass on MacOSX because another equally 
> arbitrary
> number in test_re happens to create a stack >= 1MB but <= 2MB. I would
> be +1 on just changing the test to fit in a 1MB stack.
> 
> That is, unless there are subtleties in the test that I missed, and 
> there really
> is a reason for the specific choice of the number 50000.

I vaguely recall that the number 50000 is somewhat historically
significant, but I don't remember why.  But it works on all other
platforms I know.

Do you know if setting the stack limit actually allocates that much
memory for the stack in the process in Mac OSX, or does it only
reserve VM space (like on traditional Unix)?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)