[Python-checkins] r77708 - in python/branches/py3k: Lib/test/test_re.py

[ezio.melotti]

Author: ezio.melotti
Date: Sat Jan 23 11:49:39 2010
New Revision: 77708

Log:
Merged revisions 77706 via svnmerge from 
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r77706 | ezio.melotti | 2010-01-23 12:43:05 +0200 (Sat, 23 Jan 2010) | 1 line
  
  Increased the overflow value on test_dealloc to make sure that it is big enough even for wide builds.
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Modified:
   python/branches/py3k/   (props changed)
   python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_re.py

Modified: python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_re.py
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_re.py	(original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_re.py	Sat Jan 23 11:49:39 2010
@@ -720,7 +720,11 @@
     def test_dealloc(self):
         # issue 3299: check for segfault in debug build
         import _sre
-        long_overflow = sys.maxsize + 2
+        # the overflow limit is different on wide and narrow builds and it
+        # depends on the definition of SRE_CODE (see sre.h).
+        # 2**128 should be big enough to overflow on both. For smaller values
+        # a RuntimeError is raised instead of OverflowError.
+        long_overflow = 2**128
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, re.finditer, "a", {})
         self.assertRaises(OverflowError, _sre.compile, "abc", 0, [long_overflow])