[Patches] Fix for bug PR#341

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Fred L. Drake" wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 27 May 2000, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>  > Fix to avoid buffer overruns in %-formatting of integers.
> 
> Marc-Andre,
>   I've not read the files you're patching for this one, but is this really
> the right patch?  How did you come up with 50?

Simple: the code for the float formatting uses the same
limit and I find it reasonably high to not cause any
harm to existing programs.

>   I'm also not comfortable with the magic numbers in the source.

Well, the limits seem arbitrary, but then: who will want
to print integers with more than 40 digits (2^128 + sign) ?

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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