tomer: It is my opinion that you would loose performance if the Python interpreter had the additional task of verifying byte code. It might be more appropriate to have a preprocessor that did the verifying as it compiled the byte code.
Sam Schulenburg gangesmaster wrote: > the following (random) code crashes my interpreter > (python 2.4.3/winxp): > > from types import CodeType as code > exec code(0, 5, 8, 0, "hello moshe", (), (), (), "", "", 0, "") > > i would expect the interpreter to do some verifying, at least for > sanity (valid opcodes, correct stack size, etc.) before executing > artbitrary code... after all, it was the BDFL who said """I'm not > saying it's uncrashable. I'm saying that if you crash it, it's a > bug unless proven harebrained.""" > > > -tomer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
