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A loop either never halts or has a conditional. I guess a compiler could elide a “while True:” to a branch-less jump instruction.

One hack would be to use recursion and let stack exhaustion stop you.



Count down i from 100 to 0 and do 1/i at the end of the loop :)


Other would be to use goto (though Python doesn't have it) & introduce something that will panic/throw exception, like creating variable with value 1/(max-i).


Recursion would work for that, you don't need goto.

The division by zero trick is pretty good too!


You could allocate 100 bytes and get a segfault on 101




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