[issue16096] Get rid of dangerous integer overflow tricks

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson added the comment:

> It's maybe safer (and simpler) to not touch such code in Python
> older than 3.4.

So far, I've been fixing these overflow bugs only in the development branches, unless they can be shown to cause actual bugs.  That said, I think it's probably okay to apply these for 3.3 as well as 3.4, especially since the 3.3 patch is smaller than the others.  I'll review and apply.

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assignee:  -> mark.dickinson

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