[Python-Dev] test_builtin failing? or just 64-bit platforms (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Sun, 2 Dec 2001 03:44:28 -0500

[Jeremy Hylton]

The uses of PyOSsnprintf() in sysmodule.c actually checks the return value. It always checked the sprintf() returned value and triggered a PyFatalError() if the return value was too big. I changed it to print a warning message that the output was truncated.

The test appeared off on both ends to me, so I fiddled this code. Please check the new version against your vision of sanity (my vision: there's nothing special about -1: any return value < 0 is a problem; and there's also a problem if the return value equals the buffer size, since the return value is exclusive of the \0 byte).