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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-10-13 16:07:37 (GMT)
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2011-10-13 16:07:37 (GMT)
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diff --git a/Objects/stringlib/fastsearch.h b/Objects/stringlib/fastsearch.h
index 0f7aea7..eb3d694 100644
--- a/Objects/stringlib/fastsearch.h
+++ b/Objects/stringlib/fastsearch.h
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ FASTSEARCH(const STRINGLIB_CHAR* s, Py_ssize_t n,
unsigned char needle;
needle = p[0] & 0xff;
#if STRINGLIB_SIZEOF_CHAR > 1
+ /* If looking for a multiple of 256, we'd have two
+ many false positives looking for the '\0' byte in UCS2
+ and UCS4 representations. */
if (needle != 0)
#endif
return STRINGLIB(fastsearch_memchr_1char)