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profiling: flamegraph export fails with RecursionError on a deeply recursive program #156545

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The sampling profiler's flamegraph export (profiling.sampling.stack_collector.FlamegraphCollector.export) builds the flamegraph tree with a recursive walk (convert_children) and then serializes it with json.dumps — both recurse to the depth of the deepest sampled stack. The remote unwinder captures up to MAX_FRAMES (1536) frames, but export runs at the default recursion limit (1000), so profiling a program that recurses deeper than ~1000 makes export() raise RecursionError and write no flamegraph. Both --flamegraph and --diff-flamegraph are affected (the diff collector inherits export).

Reachable when profiling a program that raised its own recursion limit and recurses deeply (recursive-descent parsers, tree/graph walkers, deep serializers).

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CPython main

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Linux, macOS

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