[issue5308] cannot marshal objects with more than 2**31 elements

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

> (And as a matter of principle, 
> INT_MAX isn't really right here: an int might be only 16 bits long on 
> some strange platforms...).

AFAIK Python doesn't support such platforms (and C standard requites at least 32-bit ints). However there are strange platforms with 64-bit ints. That's why I used the explicit constant 0x7FFFFFFF.

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