On Oct 16, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Phil Muldoon wrote: > On 16/10/14 11:45, Ömer Sinan Ağacan 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 &z۫b֫r