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Author loewis
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, loewis
Date 2008-08-14.20:21:17
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It appears that test_unicode::test_raiseMemError was meant to produce a
MemoryError. Unfortunately, on my machine (Linux 2.6.25, 32-bit
processor, 1GiB main memory, plenty swap), allocation *succeed*, and
then brings the machine to a near halt, trying to fill that memory with
data.

IMO, the patch should be rewritten to either reliably produce a
MemoryError (why not allocate sys.maxsize characters, or sys.maxsize//2?),
or else it should be removed.
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2008-08-14 20:21:19loewissetrecipients: + loewis, amaury.forgeotdarc
2008-08-14 20:21:19loewissetmessageid: <1218745279.31.0.475449103672.issue3556@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-08-14 20:21:18loewislinkissue3556 messages
2008-08-14 20:21:17loewiscreate