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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-04-06 16:53:17 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-04-06 16:53:17 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r79843 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-06 17:46:09 +0100 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 4 lines Issue #8259: Get rid of 'outrageous left shift count' error when left-shifting an integer by more than 2**31 on a 64-bit machine. Also convert shift counts to a Py_ssize_t instead of a C long. ........ r79844 | mark.dickinson | 2010-04-06 17:47:55 +0100 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 1 line Misc/NEWS entry for r79843. ........
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #8259: 1L << (2**31) no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
+ on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
+ permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
+
- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.