Re: Re: [farm-report] Daily Snake Farm report

 >This is trying to ascertain that the list allocation code does its
 >range checking right, and in fact, on a 32 bit system, this should
 >never even call malloc.

Ah... there was a brief chatter on this a while back, but
it went nowhere. Probably wrong forum.  I'm behind on my
python-dev readings.

...
 >I'll see if I can fix range_length().  Because PySequence_Size() is
 >defined as an int (for better or for workse), range_length() has to
 >return an error if the length is out of range for ints.  Then the
 >test will do something different (it won't test what it's supposed to
 >test) on 64-bit platforms; maybe we should not try this test on 64-bit
 >platforms, or replace sys.maxint/4 by 0x1fffffff.

Something like that smells reasonable - (64-bit int)/4
seemed to have potential for trouble in any case.

By the way, what *should* sys.maxint return on an LP64 platform?
The "native" view of an "int" continues to 4-byte, but a Python
int smells more like "the largest integer" (including longs).