[Python-Dev] An infinite loop in dictobject.c

[Mark Shannon]

Daniel Farina wrote:
> Hello all.  I seem to be encountering somewhat rare an infinite loop
> in hash table probing while importing _socket, as triggered by
> init_socket.c in Python 2.6, as seen/patched shipped with Ubuntu 10.04
> LTS.  The problem only reproduces on 32 bit machines, on both -O2 and
> -O0 builds (which is how I have managed to retrieve the detailed stack

Please submit a report to the tracker for this.
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Cheers,
Mark.