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authorNeal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>2007-06-09 03:36:34 (GMT)
committerNeal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>2007-06-09 03:36:34 (GMT)
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Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault when
a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms. Found by Google. It would be good for people to review this especially carefully and verify I don't have an off by one error and there is no other way to cause overflow.
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
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+- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault when
+ a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
+
- Bug #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
- Bug #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.