[issue1704621] interpreter crash when multiplying large lists

[Ivan Zakharyaschev]

Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz at altlinux.org> added the comment:

Hi!

This is broken for tuples (but not for lists, as in the example here) in 2.7.14 for me. Should we reopen this issue and fix it better?

[builder at localhost ~]$ python
Python 2.7.14 (default, Nov  7 2017, 17:07:17) 
[GCC 6.3.1 20170118 (ALT 6.3.1-alt2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> x = [0] * 2**20
>>> x *= 2**20
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
MemoryError
>>> x = [0,0,0,0,0,0] * 2**20
>>> x *= 2**20
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
MemoryError
>>> x = ('a', 'b')
>>> x = ('a', 'b') * 2**20
>>> x *= 2**20
Segmentation fault
[builder at localhost ~]$ python --version
Python 2.7.14
[builder at localhost ~]$ python
Python 2.7.14 (default, Nov  7 2017, 17:07:17) 
[GCC 6.3.1 20170118 (ALT 6.3.1-alt2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.maxsize
2147483647
>>> sys.maxint
2147483647
>>> 
[builder at localhost ~]$ python RPM/BUILD/Python-2.7.14/Lib/test/test_tuple.py
test_addmul (__main__.TupleTest) ... ok
test_bigrepeat (__main__.TupleTest) ... Segmentation fault
[builder at localhost ~]$

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nosy: +imz

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