[Python-Dev] Mac OSX issues

[Jack Jansen]

On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 11:30 Europe/Amsterdam, Guido van Rossum 
wrote:
> 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.

Except all other platforms with small stacks (MacOS9, WinCE, probably 
more).

> 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)?

I don't know, but I can't imagine it does anything more than reserve VM 
space.
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