Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I think you are right - that's a bug. As a consequence, overflowed would be cleared less often than it is now, which in turn may cause a fatal abort in case it fails to recover from a stack overflow (i.e. if it consumes another 50 stack frames, instead of unwinding).
This entire machinery is there to guard against hard-to-analyze crashes resulting from stack overflows, in particular when a dictionary lookup happened to cause a stack overflow. The overflow would raise the Python exception, which would then be cleared in the dictionary lookup, as if nothing happened. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1595> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
