Trent Mick:
Various small fixes to the builtin module to ensure no buffer overflows. - chunk #1: Proper casting to ensure no truncation, and hence no surprises, in the comparison. - chunk #2: The id() function guarantees a unique return value for different objects. It does this by returning the pointer to the object. By returning a PyInt, on Win64 (sizeof(long) < sizeof(void*)) the pointer is truncated and the guarantee may be proven false. The appropriate return function is PyLong_FromVoidPtr, this returns a PyLong if that is necessary to return the pointer without truncation. [GvR: note that this means that id() can now return a long on Win32 platforms. This *might* break some code...] - chunk #3: Ensure no overflow in raw_input(). Granted the user would have to pass in >2GB of data but it *is* a possible buffer overflow condition.
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