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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2002-10-08 21:01:07 +0000
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2002-10-08 21:01:07 +0000
commitcfac1d4a1894789cc52e77723c9008f300a9050b (patch)
tree2695970abf9026a1be1ae6a4651a5eebaf7e3808
parent8696ebcd28d38f74ee0ffa2cd82d9db1c0bad8df (diff)
downloadcpython-git-cfac1d4a1894789cc52e77723c9008f300a9050b.tar.gz
The
list(xrange(sys.maxint / 4)) test. Changed 4 to 2. The belief is that this test intended to trigger a bit of code in listobject.c's NRESIZE macro that's looking for arithmetic overflow. As written, it doesn't achieve that, though, and leaves it up to the platform realloc() as to whether it wants to allocate 2 gigabytes. Some platforms say "sure!", although they don't appear to mean it, and disaster ensues. Changing 4 to 2 (just barely) manages to trigger the arithmetic overflow test instead, leaving the platform realloc() out of it. I'll backport this to the 2.2 branch next.
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_b1.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_b1.py b/Lib/test/test_b1.py
index c90cadb442..65285ee737 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_b1.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_b1.py
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ if sys.maxint == 0x7fffffff:
# thread for the details:
# http://sources.redhat.com/ml/newlib/2002/msg00369.html
- list(xrange(sys.maxint / 4))
+ list(xrange(sys.maxint // 2))
except MemoryError:
pass
else: