Re: recursion limit exceeded in Python API, but there's only one function in traceback

[<Paul_Koning at Dell dot com>]

On Oct 16, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 16/10/14 11:45, Ãmer Sinan AÄacan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm putting some breakpoints and then running some actions when
>> program reaches that points, using Python API.
>> 
>> After a few breaks, GDB is starting to print these lines:
>> 
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/home/omer/gdb_script/script.py", line 71, in handle_breakpoint
>>    self.breakpoint_jump_addrs[bp.location].add(addr)
>> RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
> 
> That's an error from Python.  It tells me something in script.py is
> not quite right.  Impossible to tell without seeing script.py in
> general.  You can increase the recursion depth by doing something like
> 
> import sys
> sys.setrecursionlimit(9000)
> 
> Where '9000' is a limit you can set and vary.  However, this might
> indeed be papering over the cracks, and not fixing the fault.

I would expect that you could wrap the script in a try/except block, to catch the stack overflow and print a Python stack trace when that happens.

Should GDB print a Python backtrace when the Python script fails, just as executing a Python script standalone would do?

	paul