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Author Jeffrey.Kintscher
Recipients Jeffrey.Kintscher, xdegaye, yan12125
Date 2019-05-20.01:07:14
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The test fails because curses.pair_content(curses.COLOR_PAIRS-1) validates its parameter against the limits for signed short (max 32767) while curses.COLOR_PAIRS-1 has the value 65535.

Unfortunately, re-plumbing curses.pair_content() to use signed integers instead of signed shorts and replacing the underlying ncurses API call from pair_content() to extended_pair_content() doesn't fix the problem because extended_pair_content() still fails when passed 65535. Tracing into the ncurses 6.1 source code, I found that start_color() clamps the maximum number of color pairs at SHRT_MAX (32767) regardless of the number of color pairs supported by the terminal.
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