[issue9020] 2.7: eval hangs on AIX

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> added the comment:

On 2010-06-18, at 11:49 AM, Eric Smith wrote:

> It would also be good to get a test case for this. I realize it's difficult, but that's the sort of change that might get undone some day by someone going through and "optimizing" the code.

Running existing tests (some of which use `eval`) on a platform/compiler combination (eg: AIX/xlc_r) where __CHAR_UNSIGNED__ gets defined should be enough.

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