bpo-18049: Sync thread stack size to main thread size on macOS (GH-14748)


This changeset increases the default size of the stack
for threads on macOS to the size of the stack
of the main thread and reenables the relevant
recursion test.
(cherry picked from commit 1a057bab0f18d6ad843ce321d1d77a4819497ae4)

Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
index 0a0a62b..ac4e7a7 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
@@ -1049,8 +1049,6 @@
         lock = threading.Lock()
         self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, lock.release)
 
-    @unittest.skipUnless(sys.platform == 'darwin' and test.support.python_is_optimized(),
-                         'test macosx problem')
     def test_recursion_limit(self):
         # Issue 9670
         # test that excessive recursion within a non-main thread causes
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-07-13-15-58-18.bpo-18049.MklhQQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-07-13-15-58-18.bpo-18049.MklhQQ.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5af07cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2019-07-13-15-58-18.bpo-18049.MklhQQ.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Increase the default stack size of threads from 5MB to 16MB on macOS, to
+match the stack size of the main thread. This avoids crashes on deep recursion
+in threads.
diff --git a/Python/thread_pthread.h b/Python/thread_pthread.h
index a36d16c..994e35b 100644
--- a/Python/thread_pthread.h
+++ b/Python/thread_pthread.h
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
  */
 #if defined(__APPLE__) && defined(THREAD_STACK_SIZE) && THREAD_STACK_SIZE == 0
 #undef  THREAD_STACK_SIZE
-#define THREAD_STACK_SIZE       0x500000
+/* Note: This matches the value of -Wl,-stack_size in configure.ac */
+#define THREAD_STACK_SIZE       0x1000000
 #endif
 #if defined(__FreeBSD__) && defined(THREAD_STACK_SIZE) && THREAD_STACK_SIZE == 0
 #undef  THREAD_STACK_SIZE
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index cb5f130..3cd9b88 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -9542,6 +9542,8 @@
 		# Issue #18075: the default maximum stack size (8MBytes) is too
 		# small for the default recursion limit. Increase the stack size
 		# to ensure that tests don't crash
+		# Note: This matches the value of THREAD_STACK_SIZE in
+		# thread_pthread.h
 		LINKFORSHARED="-Wl,-stack_size,1000000 $LINKFORSHARED"
 
 		if test "$enable_framework"
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b31ed24..a208889 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2694,6 +2694,8 @@
 		# Issue #18075: the default maximum stack size (8MBytes) is too
 		# small for the default recursion limit. Increase the stack size
 		# to ensure that tests don't crash
+		# Note: This matches the value of THREAD_STACK_SIZE in
+		# thread_pthread.h
 		LINKFORSHARED="-Wl,-stack_size,1000000 $LINKFORSHARED"
 
 		if test "$enable_framework"