Add internal doc describing the stack protection mechanism #137663
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| Protection against pure Python stack recursion has existed since very early, but in 3.12 we added protection against stack overflow | ||
| in C code. This was initially implemented using a counter and later improved in 3.14 to use the actual stack depth. |
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This is versioned in the source tree, is it important to discuss legacy/3.12 behaviour here?
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Not important, but a bit of background does no harm.
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
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