Bugs item #1110055, was opened at 2005-01-26 11:18 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by logistix You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1110055&group_id=5470
Category: Python Interpreter Core Group: Python 2.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jacob Engelbrecht (jengeldk) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: recursion core dumps Initial Comment: when running recursive function you get a coredump with deep recursion. eg from sys import * n = 30000 setrecursionlimit(n+1) def fact(n): if n==1: return 1 return fact(n-1)*n fact(n) This is seen on linux i686 with both python2.3 and python2.4, the recursion depth which triggers the core dump is 26211 with python2.4 and 29123 with python2.3 with a machine having 2076860 kB of memory, on machines with less memory smaller numbers are seen. this is what gdb tells me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/scratch/jacob$ gdb /usr/bin/python2.4 core GNU gdb 6.3-debian Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found) Core was generated by `python2.4 /home/user_4/jacob/rr 30000'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. warning: current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libutil.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libutil.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libm.so.6... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libm.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x400c94bf in mallopt () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: logistix (logistix) Date: 2005-01-29 14:12 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=699438 This looks like a stack overflow. There's not much python can do when the stack runs out of memory, which is why the default recursion limit is set to 1000. Also, at least in the reproducable, the number you are building is going to consume excessive amounts of memory. I ran this test (to avoid creating a giant long number) and still got the segfault. from sys import * n = 30000 setrecursionlimit(n+1) def nofact(n): if n==1: return 1 return nofact(n-1) nofact(n) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1110055&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com