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Author	vstinner
Recipients	berker.peksag, ethan.furman, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2016-04-15.15:52:56
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Message-id	<1460735576.96.0.119185371569.issue26766@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> LGTM, please commit. Ok, done. > Why the behavior is vary in release and debug builds? See _PyBytesWriter_Alloc(): the code is designed to detect bugs earlier in debug mode, it only uses 10 bytes of the "small buffer" (buffer allocated on the stack) rather than the full size of the smaller buffer (512 bytes). It looks like this hack helped to find a real bug :-)

> LGTM, please commit.

Ok, done.

> Why the behavior is vary in release and debug builds?

See _PyBytesWriter_Alloc(): the code is designed to detect bugs earlier in debug mode, it only uses 10 bytes of the "small buffer" (buffer allocated on the stack) rather than the full size of the smaller buffer (512 bytes).

It looks like this hack helped to find a real bug :-)

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