# Author:  James Tam
# Version: March 30, 2010
# A program that uses more and more of the memory in the computer each
# time that function fun is recursively called.

def fun (no):
   print (no)
   aList = []
   # Creates a 10 million element list each element is a character (1 byte).
   # Total memory allocated for each call ~ 10 MB.
   for i in range (0, 10000000, 1):
      aList.append("*")
   no = no + 1
   fun (no)

def main ():
   fun (1)


main ()