Re: Further adventures in the land of 64-bit linux

Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Sep 2002 00:59:52 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.snake-farm.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Is there any point to having such a large number?

Yes, it tests a specific failure when there were more than 2**16 parse
tree subnodes at a given level.  Some generated code really needed
this, and it was fixed (if you have enough memory).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)