diff -r 7e179ee91af0 Modules/faulthandler.c
--- a/Modules/faulthandler.c    Mon Mar 23 15:26:49 2015 +0200
+++ b/Modules/faulthandler.c    Mon Mar 23 13:19:28 2015 -0500
@@ -941,7 +941,15 @@
 }

 #if defined(HAVE_SIGALTSTACK) && defined(HAVE_SIGACTION)
-static Py_uintptr_t
+
+#if defined(__INTEL_COMPILER)
+/* Turn off compiler's tail call optimization for the stack_overflow
+ * generator.  (Some compilers turn the recursive tail call into a
+ * loop.) */
+#pragma intel optimization_level 0
+#endif
+static
+Py_uintptr_t
 stack_overflow(Py_uintptr_t min_sp, Py_uintptr_t max_sp, size_t *depth)
 {
     /* allocate 4096 bytes on the stack at each call */