[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Objects stringobject.c,2.193,2.194 unicodeobject.c,2.171,2.172
Michael Hudson
mwh@python.net
11 Oct 2002 10:57:29 +0100
gvanrossum@users.sourceforge.net writes:
> Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Objects
> In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv19831
>> Modified Files:
> stringobject.c unicodeobject.c
> Log Message:
> Fix a nasty endcase reported by Armin Rigo in SF bug 618623:
> '%2147483647d' % -123 segfaults. This was because an integer overflow
> in a comparison caused the string resize to be skipped. After fixing
> the overflow, this could call _PyString_Resize() with a negative size,
> so I (1) test for that and raise MemoryError instead; (2) also added a
> test for negative newsize to _PyString_Resize(), raising SystemError
> as for all bad arguments.
>> An identical bug existed in unicodeobject.c, of course.
>> Will backport to 2.2.2.
No test case? For shame!
I'll do one if you don't beat me to it.
Cheers,
M.
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