Commit 83499db4 authored by Jason Tishler's avatar Jason Tishler

Bug #556025: list(xrange(1e9)) --> seg fault

Close the bug report again -- this time for Cygwin due to a newlib bug.
See the following for the details:

	http://sources.redhat.com/ml/newlib/2002/msg00369.html

Note that this commit is only a documentation (i.e., comment) change.
parent 4571e9d4
......@@ -534,6 +534,11 @@ try:
# this assumes that the max data size (sys.maxint) == max address size
# this also assumes that the address size is at least 4 bytes
# with 8 byte addresses, the bug is not well tested
#
# Note: This test is expected to SEGV under Cygwin 1.3.12 or earlier
# due to a newlib bug. See the following mailing list thread for the
# details:
# http://sources.redhat.com/ml/newlib/2002/msg00369.html
list(xrange(sys.maxint / 4))
except MemoryError:
pass
......
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