Eryk Sun added the comment: I don't think this is Windows related. Are you using 32-bit Python? On Linux, if I limit the process address space to 2 gigs, it crashes almost immediately:
$ ulimit -v 2000000 $ python-dbg -c 'import crash' Segmentation fault It runs out of memory while parsing the file: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x000000000048ecb4 in PyObject_Malloc (nbytes=72) at ../Objects/obmalloc.c:932 932 ../Objects/obmalloc.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt #0 0x000000000048ecb4 in PyObject_Malloc (nbytes=72) at ../Objects/obmalloc.c:932 #1 0x000000000048f8be in _PyObject_DebugMallocApi (id=111 'o', nbytes=40) at ../Objects/obmalloc.c:1469 #2 0x000000000048fa2b in _PyObject_DebugReallocApi (api=111 'o', p=0x0, nbytes=40) at ../Objects/obmalloc.c:1520 #3 0x000000000048f83c in _PyObject_DebugRealloc (p=0x0, nbytes=40) at ../Objects/obmalloc.c:1441 #4 0x0000000000418a02 in PyNode_AddChild (n1=0x7fff85cbffb8, type=318, str=0x0, lineno=1, col_offset=6446977) at ../Parser/node.c:98 #5 0x0000000000418f53 in push (s=0xa6b680, type=318, d=0x8bfc70 <dfas+2480>, newstate=1, lineno=1, col_offset=6446977) at ../Parser/parser.c:126 #6 0x000000000041946c in PyParser_AddToken (ps=0xa6b680, type=262144, str=0x7fff85cba720 "11", lineno=1, col_offset=6446977, expected_ret=0x7fffffffd324) at ../Parser/parser.c:252 #7 0x0000000000419f19 in parsetok (tok=0xa5f650, g=0x8c0ac0 <_PyParser_Grammar>, start=257, err_ret=0x7fffffffd300, flags=0x7fffffffd2ec) at ../Parser/parsetok.c:198 #8 0x0000000000419cb6 in PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx (fp=0xa19b70, filename=0xa53b00 "crash.py", g=0x8c0ac0 <_PyParser_Grammar>, start=257, ps1=0x0, ps2=0x0, err_ret=0x7fffffffd300, flags=0x7fffffffd2ec) at ../Parser/parsetok.c:106 ---------- components: -Windows nosy: +eryksun _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26415> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com