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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients brian.curtin, mark.dickinson, pitrou, sbt, schlamar, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, tim.golden
Date 2012-12-26.14:47:13
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This change is not backward compatible. Now user can mmap a larger file and safely access lower 2 GiB. With the patch it will fail.

Unix implementation uses unsafe integer overflow idiom which cause undefined behavior (Mark, you have the floor).
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2012-12-26 14:47:13serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, pitrou, tim.golden, brian.curtin, schlamar, sbt
2012-12-26 14:47:13serhiy.storchakasetmessageid: <1356533233.68.0.333808853298.issue16743@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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