[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-488480 ] integer multiply to return -max_int-1

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Bugs item #488480, was opened at 2001-12-03 09:14
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Summary: integer multiply to return -max_int-1

Initial Comment:
integer multiplication never returns '-sys.max_int-1' 
but signals an OverflowError instead (or in Python 
2.2b1 returns a long).


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>Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2001-12-04 15:06

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Actually, it *can* return -sys.maxint-1, but only if the 
inputs are exactly right.  The overflow checking here was a 
mess; replaced by a vastly simpler method, in

Lib/test/test_types.py; new revision: 1.22
Objects/intobject.c; new revision: 2.79

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Comment By: Armin Rigo (arigo)
Date: 2001-12-03 09:23

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(sorry, I was not logged in when I submitted this one)

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Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2001-12-03 09:22

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Confirmed, and assigned to me.

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