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Re: [ATTN MAINTAINER] python
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:51:01 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ATTN MAINTAINER] python
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Achim Gratz writes:
> While building maxima I've come across a consistent SEGV crash of python
> on both architectures. To reproduce, change into the doc/info dirextory
> and run
>
> $ sh ./extract_categories.sh maxima
>
> The crash seems to relate to the number of lines in the program (thare
> are about 20000 lines and it does not crash with just 5000). The same
> program works without problems on Linux. It creates and deletes a lot
> of variables, so the SEGV might be related to either the GC or memory
> allocation in Python.
Increasing the stack reserve size of the python executable to 0x400000
on 32bit and 0x800000 on 64bit avoids the SEGV. I'm not sure if this
indicates an error in Python itself or simply a too restricted
configuration.
Regards,
Achim.
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