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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun@divmod.com> wrote:

exarkun@charm:~$ ~/Projects/python/trunk/python

Python 2.6a3+ (trunk:63964, Jun 5 2008, 16:49:12)

[GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import struct

>>> struct.pack("357913941c", 'a')

Segmentation fault

exarkun@charm:~$

The unit test for exactly this case was deleted in r60892. I would like to

suggest that just deleting unit tests isn't a very good idea.

Jean-Paul

That deletion was apparently in the release25-maint branch where this bug has been fixed in order to avoid the test case from allocating 8gb on 64bit hosts where it wouldn't need to raise a MemoryError (http://bugs.python.org/issue2137). However it looks like it was never committed to trunk. (release25-maint r60793 has a lot of fixes)

I'm looking into merging the fixes into trunk.

Martin, since you committed 60793 in Feb, any others like this that need merging from release25-maint to trunk off the top of your head?

-Greg