From 83499db4f0ff82bb2f7a60ff593245d0ee55c2cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Tishler Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:42:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Bug #556025: list(xrange(1e9)) --> seg fault Close the bug report again -- this time for Cygwin due to a newlib bug. See the following for the details: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/newlib/2002/msg00369.html Note that this commit is only a documentation (i.e., comment) change. --- Lib/test/test_b1.py | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Lib/test/test_b1.py b/Lib/test/test_b1.py index f8a3f0167b..938e76d5ae 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_b1.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_b1.py @@ -534,6 +534,11 @@ try: # this assumes that the max data size (sys.maxint) == max address size # this also assumes that the address size is at least 4 bytes # with 8 byte addresses, the bug is not well tested + # + # Note: This test is expected to SEGV under Cygwin 1.3.12 or earlier + # due to a newlib bug. See the following mailing list thread for the + # details: + # http://sources.redhat.com/ml/newlib/2002/msg00369.html list(xrange(sys.maxint / 4)) except MemoryError: pass -- 2.50.1