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authorMark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>2011-09-24 08:01:16 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>2011-09-24 08:01:16 (GMT)
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Backport issue #12973 itertools fix from 3.x.
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS6
-rw-r--r--Modules/itertoolsmodule.c4
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b4dd215..c4f0cb0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ Core and Builtins
- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that invoked undefined behaviour in
int.__pow__. These overflow checks were causing int.__pow__ to produce
incorrect results with recent versions of Clang, as a result of the
- compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow check
- in list_repeat (which caused test_list to fail with recent versions
- of Clang).
+ compiler optimizing the check away. Also fix similar overflow checks
+ in list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These
+ bugs caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
diff --git a/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c b/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
index ff25335..b51ccf9 100644
--- a/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/itertoolsmodule.c
@@ -1234,7 +1234,9 @@ islice_next(isliceobject *lz)
return NULL;
lz->cnt++;
oldnext = lz->next;
- lz->next += lz->step;
+ /* The (size_t) cast below avoids the danger of undefined
+ behaviour from signed integer overflow. */
+ lz->next += (size_t)lz->step;
if (lz->next < oldnext || (stop != -1 && lz->next > stop))
lz->next = stop;
return item;