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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2005-07-17 23:45:23 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2005-07-17 23:45:23 (GMT)
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SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
In addition, long_pow() skipped a necessary (albeit extremely unlikely to trigger) error check when converting an int modulus to long. Alas, I was unable to write a test case that crashed due to either cause. Bugfix candidate.
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@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
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+- SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
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- SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some
reference counts in some error exit cases.