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| author | Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> | 2011-05-28 00:36:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> | 2011-05-28 00:36:12 -0700 |
| commit | 6e58400bd6ed7fab2b9f6bb1a5813ca669a3440c (patch) | |
| tree | e05d213515bdd425aa2016a5cd9a802fe0d2d287 /Python/thread_pthread.h | |
| parent | 6c6b8cd1304f757f555d6a23a083a72fd231f594 (diff) | |
| parent | 44a75f95df9c9310c84fb5e66420166c74079cd2 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-6e58400bd6ed7fab2b9f6bb1a5813ca669a3440c.tar.gz | |
Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
"maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
(patch by Ronald Oussoren)
Diffstat (limited to 'Python/thread_pthread.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | Python/thread_pthread.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Python/thread_pthread.h b/Python/thread_pthread.h index 6bc9d55781..3efccf660a 100644 --- a/Python/thread_pthread.h +++ b/Python/thread_pthread.h @@ -18,6 +18,18 @@ #ifndef THREAD_STACK_SIZE #define THREAD_STACK_SIZE 0 /* use default stack size */ #endif + +#if (defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__FreeBSD__)) && defined(THREAD_STACK_SIZE) && THREAD_STACK_SIZE == 0 + /* The default stack size for new threads on OSX is small enough that + * we'll get hard crashes instead of 'maximum recursion depth exceeded' + * exceptions. + * + * The default stack size below is the minimal stack size where a + * simple recursive function doesn't cause a hard crash. + */ +#undef THREAD_STACK_SIZE +#define THREAD_STACK_SIZE 0x400000 +#endif /* for safety, ensure a viable minimum stacksize */ #define THREAD_STACK_MIN 0x8000 /* 32kB */ #else /* !_POSIX_THREAD_ATTR_STACKSIZE */ |