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Author	amaury.forgeotdarc
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, chandra, terry.reedy
Date	2011-11-07.12:44:45
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Message-id	<1320669886.24.0.629166743292.issue13335@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Unfortunately there is not much in the process call stack: the creation of a list (PyList_New) needs to allocate some memory (not much: sizeof(PyListObject) + gc overhead, probably 32 bytes). If the system malloc() function fails and returns NULL, Python will raise a MemoryError. But if malloc() blocks and freezes the process, there is not much Python can do.

Unfortunately there is not much in the process call stack: the creation of a list (PyList_New) needs to allocate some memory (not much: sizeof(PyListObject) + gc overhead, probably 32 bytes).

If the system malloc() function fails and returns NULL, Python will raise a MemoryError.  But if malloc() blocks and freezes the process, there is not much Python can do.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-11-07 12:44:46	amaury.forgeotdarc	set	recipients: + amaury.forgeotdarc, terry.reedy, chandra
2011-11-07 12:44:46	amaury.forgeotdarc	set	messageid: <1320669886.24.0.629166743292.issue13335@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-11-07 12:44:45	amaury.forgeotdarc	link	issue13335 messages
2011-11-07 12:44:45	amaury.forgeotdarc	create