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Warn that compile() can crash when compiling to an AST object (GH-6043) (GH-6046) 

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Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -260,6 +260,12 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
character. This is to facilitate detection of incomplete and complete
statements in the :mod:`code` module.
.. warning::
It is possible to crash the Python interpreter with a
sufficiently large/complex string when compiling to an AST
object due to stack depth limitations in Python's AST compiler.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
Allowed use of Windows and Mac newlines. Also input in ``'exec'`` mode
does not have to end in a newline anymore. Added the *optimize* parameter.