From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:46:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bug #2137: Remove test_struct.test_crasher, which was meaningful
X-Git-Tag: v2.5.2~6
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=328c643bcbff5f980e37afe420cecca76472cb9e;p=python

Bug #2137: Remove test_struct.test_crasher, which was meaningful
only on 32-bit systems.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_struct.py b/Lib/test/test_struct.py
index 71e35adc0f..7ecb6ac9a0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_struct.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_struct.py
@@ -618,12 +618,8 @@ def test_unpack_with_buffer():
     value, = struct.unpack('>I', data)
     vereq(value, 0x12345678)
 
-def test_crasher():
-    assertRaises(MemoryError, struct.pack, "357913941c", "a")
-
 # Test methods to pack and unpack from buffers rather than strings.
 test_unpack_from()
 test_pack_into()
 test_pack_into_fn()
 test_unpack_with_buffer()
-test_crasher()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ac96e2117f..e90413714b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Extension Modules
 - Fix deallocation of array objects when allocation ran out of memory.
   Remove array test case that was incorrect on 64-bit systems.
 
+- Bug #2137: Remove test_struct.test_crasher, which was meaningful
+  only on 32-bit systems.
+
 
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