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Author	methane
Recipients	Arfrever, loewis, mark.dickinson, methane, pitrou, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date	2019-03-20.09:15:49
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Message-id	<1553073350.0.0.970468160732.issue8677@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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> Also PC/winreg.c. In this case winreg.SetValue() needs a length of size DWORD instead of ssize_t. As MSDN, cbData is ignored. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winreg/nf-winreg-regsetvaluew Can I skip overflow check? If I can not, what is DWORD_MAX? (INT_MAX?)

> Also PC/winreg.c. In this case winreg.SetValue() needs a length of size DWORD instead of ssize_t.

As MSDN, cbData is ignored.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winreg/nf-winreg-regsetvaluew

Can I skip overflow check?

If I can not, what is DWORD_MAX? (INT_MAX?)

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