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

[Ethan Furman]

Victor Stinner wrote:
> 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).

So we are agreed that the file is not, in fact, 2GB in size...

 > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:19 PM, victor.stinner
 > <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
 >> +# Issue #10276 - check that inputs of 2 GB are handled correctly.
 >> +# Be aware of issues #1202, #8650, #8651 and #10276

So why do the comments say we are testing a 2GB input?

~Ethan~