[ python-Bugs-837242 ] id() for large ptr should return a long

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Bugs item #837242, was opened at 2003-11-06 16:11
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.4
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Anthony Baxter (anthonybaxter)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: id() for large ptr should return a long

Initial Comment:
Under something like Redhat 10 the address space is
messed about with to "prevent stack smash attacks" or
some such. This means that you sometimes get addresses
in the high half of a 32 bit int. Since Python ints are
signed, this means we return a negative number from
id(). For 2.4, we should probably return a long. 

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2006-04-10 22:28

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Committed as r45239.

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Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2006-04-10 14:52

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Looks fine from my POV.

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2006-04-10 14:27

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Right: about about this patch?

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Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2006-02-20 22:52

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Ping!

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Comment By: Georg Brandl (birkenfeld)
Date: 2006-01-13 18:24

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You're making changes to PyLong_FromVoidPtr, doesn't
PyLong_AsVoidPtr have to be changed too?

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2006-01-11 23:39

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How about the attached patch?

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Comment By: Georg Brandl (birkenfeld)
Date: 2006-01-10 23:21

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Perhaps, for 2.5?

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2003-11-06 21:54

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Would there anything be wrong with making that change right
away?

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