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authorMark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>2012-04-15 15:30:35 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>2012-04-15 15:30:35 (GMT)
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Issue 13496: Fix bisect.bisect overflow bug for large collections.
Diffstat (limited to 'Modules')
-rw-r--r--Modules/_bisectmodule.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/_bisectmodule.c b/Modules/_bisectmodule.c
index 7fecfc6..93d0eed 100644
--- a/Modules/_bisectmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_bisectmodule.c
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ internal_bisect_right(PyObject *list, PyObject *item, Py_ssize_t lo, Py_ssize_t
return -1;
}
while (lo < hi) {
- mid = (lo + hi) / 2;
+ /* The (size_t)cast ensures that the addition and subsequent division
+ are performed as unsigned operations, avoiding difficulties from
+ signed overflow. (See issue 13496.) */
+ mid = ((size_t)lo + hi) / 2;
litem = PySequence_GetItem(list, mid);
if (litem == NULL)
return -1;
@@ -121,7 +124,10 @@ internal_bisect_left(PyObject *list, PyObject *item, Py_ssize_t lo, Py_ssize_t h
return -1;
}
while (lo < hi) {
- mid = (lo + hi) / 2;
+ /* The (size_t)cast ensures that the addition and subsequent division
+ are performed as unsigned operations, avoiding difficulties from
+ signed overflow. (See issue 13496.) */
+ mid = ((size_t)lo + hi) / 2;
litem = PySequence_GetItem(list, mid);
if (litem == NULL)
return -1;