[Python-Dev] Before 2.5 - More signed integer overflows (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Sep 18 16:02:29 CEST 2006

Neal Norwitz schrieb:

I'm getting a crash when running testbuiltin and testcalendar (at least) with gcc 4.1.1 on amd64. It's happening in pymalloc, though I don't know what the cause is. I thought I tested with gcc 4.1 before, but probably would have been in debug mode.

Can't really check right now, but it might be that this is just the limitation that a debug obmalloc doesn't work on 64-bit systems. There is a header at each block with a fixed size of 4 bytes, even though it should be 8 bytes on 64-bit systems. This header is there only in a debug build.

Regards, Martin

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