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In _PyUnicode_New() a unicode object is taken from the freelist but if
the unicode_resize() call fails and returns -1, the goto onerror calls
_Py_ForgetReference on the unicode object... But it has NULL _ob_prev
and _ob_next values causing a crash when they're used.
How to reproduce:
* Make a 32-bit --with-pydebug build of Python trunk.
* Run it on a machine with lots of ram (at least 3gigs recommended, or
lots of swap and a heap of patience):
./python
Python 2.6a2+ (trunk:62336M, Apr 13 2008, 18:51:30)
>>> msg = 'A'*2000111222
>>> x = msg.decode('utf8')
It segmentation faults in _Py_ForgetReference.

This should has been fixed by Amaury as part of another patch (the one
which is tested for in test_raiseMemError).
Could you try again?

Verified fixed.
Python 2.6b2+ (trunk:65871, Aug 19 2008, 13:10:07)
>>> msg = 'A'*2000111222
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>>> x = msg.decode('utf8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/usr/local/google/home/gps/python/trunk/Lib/encodings/utf_8.py",
line 16, in decode
 return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
MemoryError
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