[issue3362] locale.getpreferredencoding() gives bus error on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC

[cfr]

cfr <margali at imapmail.org> added the comment:

Thanks.

I couldn't get anything from gdb which wasn't already in the crash log -
likely because I don't know how to elicit the information correctly.

Output from a build with the augmented _localemodule.c:

./python.exe 
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 16 2008, 01:44:22) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin
iType "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os, sys, locale
>>> locale.getpreferredencoding()
The value of name is 0x0
It points to '(null)'
Bus error

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