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  r77706 | ezio.melotti | 2010-01-23 12:43:05 +0200 (Sat, 23 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  Increased the overflow value on test_dealloc to make sure that it is big enough even for wide builds.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index c04b626d3c..6e302334ef 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -688,7 +688,11 @@ class ReTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_dealloc(self):
         # issue 3299: check for segfault in debug build
         import _sre
-        long_overflow = sys.maxsize + 2
+        # the overflow limit is different on wide and narrow builds and it
+        # depends on the definition of SRE_CODE (see sre.h).
+        # 2**128 should be big enough to overflow on both. For smaller values
+        # a RuntimeError is raised instead of OverflowError.
+        long_overflow = 2**128
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, re.finditer, "a", {})
         self.assertRaises(OverflowError, _sre.compile, "abc", 0, [long_overflow])