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authorMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2003-09-22 11:14:40 (GMT)
committerMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2003-09-22 11:14:40 (GMT)
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Added test whether wchar_t is signed or not. A signed wchar_t is not usable as internal unicode type base for Py_UNICODE since the unicode implementation assumes an unsigned type.
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.4 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
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+- Added test whether wchar_t is signed or not. A signed wchar_t is not
+ usable as internal unicode type base for Py_UNICODE since the
+ unicode implementation assumes an unsigned type.
+
- Fixed a bug in the cache of length-one Unicode strings that could
lead to a seg fault. The specific problem occurred when an earlier,
non-fatal error left an uninitialized Unicode object in the