[Python-Dev] new failing test -- test_compiler (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Sun Aug 8 02:35:44 CEST 2004

[Armin Rigo]

... This is now fixed by skipping the optimization if we got an interned string. While messing with obrefcnt is always a bit fragile I am still convinced that the += optimization is safe again.

Ya, this bug wasn't scary (an unlikely but clear-in-hindsight problem, specifically due to a subsystem lying about true refcounts -- not much of that goes on, thank God).

Alas, test_compiler still fails (but in an ordinary "doesn't work" way, no longer in an internal-error way), so testing with -uall is still a bit broken.

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