[Python-Dev] test_gzip/test_tarfile failure om AMD64

[Tim Peters]

I'm afraid a sabbatical year isn't long enough to understand what the
struct module did or intends to do by way of range checking <0.7
wink>.

Is this intended?  This is on a 32-bit Windows box with current trunk:

>>> from struct import pack as p
>>> p("I", 2**32 + 2343)
C:\Code\python\lib\struct.py:63: DeprecationWarning: 'I' format
requires 0 <= number <= 4294967295
  return o.pack(*args)
'\x00\x00\x00\x00'

The warning makes sense, but the result doesn't make sense to me.  In
Python 2.4.3, that example raised OverflowError, which seems better
than throwing away all the bits without an exception.