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Author taleinat
Recipients Jeffrey.Kintscher, bup, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka, taleinat, terry.reedy
Date 2019-11-17.16:00:25
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The PR looks pretty good, but the question is whether we want to break backwards compatibility in the name of correctness.

In this case, the silent buggy behavior of keeping the (mod 256) of the value seems worth fixing to me.
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2019-11-17 16:00:26taleinatsetrecipients: + taleinat, terry.reedy, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka, bup, Jeffrey.Kintscher
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