diff Python/errors.c @ 52711:7e86fa255fc2 legacy-trunk

In PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches, temporarily bump the recursion limit, so that in the most common case PyObject_IsSubclass will not raise a recursion error we have to ignore anyway.
author Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
date Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:47:44 +0000
parents d01c1d768841
children 54b2cd21ab46
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--- a/Python/errors.c	Thu Apr 02 02:44:54 2009 +0000
+++ b/Python/errors.c	Thu Apr 02 02:47:44 2009 +0000
@@ -106,10 +106,16 @@
 		err = PyExceptionInstance_Class(err);
 
 	if (PyExceptionClass_Check(err) && PyExceptionClass_Check(exc)) {
-		int res = 0;
+		int res = 0, reclimit;
 		PyObject *exception, *value, *tb;
 		PyErr_Fetch(&exception, &value, &tb);
+		/* Temporarily bump the recursion limit, so that in the most
+		   common case PyObject_IsSubclass will not raise a recursion
+		   error we have to ignore anyway. */
+		reclimit = Py_GetRecursionLimit();
+		Py_SetRecursionLimit(reclimit + 5);
 		res = PyObject_IsSubclass(err, exc);
+		Py_SetRecursionLimit(reclimit);
 		/* This function must not fail, so print the error here */
 		if (res == -1) {
 			PyErr_WriteUnraisable(err);