Issue #23654: Fix faulthandler._stack_overflow() for the Intel C Compiler (ICC)

vstinner · vstinner · commit 19276f184f00 · 2015-03-23T21:20:27.000+01:00
Issue #23654: Turn off ICC's tail call optimization for the stack_overflow generator. ICC turns the recursive tail call into a loop. Patch written by Matt Frank.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ Doug Fort
 Chris Foster
 John Fouhy
 Andrew Francis
+Matt Frank
 Stefan Franke
 Martin Franklin
 Kent Frazier
diff --git a/Modules/faulthandler.c b/Modules/faulthandler.c
@@ -911,7 +911,14 @@ faulthandler_fatal_error_py(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 }
 
 #if defined(HAVE_SIGALTSTACK) && defined(HAVE_SIGACTION)
-static Py_uintptr_t
+#ifdef __INTEL_COMPILER
+   /* Issue #23654: Turn off ICC's tail call optimization for the
+    * stack_overflow generator. ICC turns 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 */
