From: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:47:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Misc/NEWS entry for r79843.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7b1~38
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8279167af9ffa93d6a220254c9f0a45887118157;p=python

Misc/NEWS entry for r79843.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6c9e55ddf4..7a018adab9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
+  on 64-bit machines.  The shift count for either left or right shift is
+  permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
+
 - Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
 
 - Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.