Patch (by Andrew Kuchling of course) to prevent named back references

in the pattern to wear out the reference count on small integers.

diff --git a/Modules/pypcre.c b/Modules/pypcre.c
index 797d955b397c3223220b1500078550e1b74350bb..699932fc5e4c369bc68ead7fe3c5729883c0cff2 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/pypcre.c
+++ b/Modules/pypcre.c
@@ -1832,7 +1832,7 @@ for (;; ptr++)
              }
 
              refnum = PyInt_AsLong(intobj);
-             Py_DECREF(string); Py_DECREF(intobj);
+             Py_DECREF(string); 
              *code++ = OP_REF;
              *code++ = refnum;
              /* The continue will cause the top-level for() loop to