[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): Issue #10276: test_zlib checks that inputs of 2 GB are handled correctly by

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Thu May 5 14:27:43 CEST 2011


Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 05:07 -0700, Ethan Furman a écrit :
> ... hence the resulting file is one less than 2GB.

Yep, it's 0x7FFFFFFF because it's INT_MAX, the biggest value storable in
an int. The zlib module stores the buffer size into an int in Python 2.7
(and Py_ssize_t in Python 3.3).

Victor



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