[issue39576] Surprising MemoryError in `decimal` with MAX_PREC

[Stefan Krah]

Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> added the comment:

A focused issue report would include at least the following:

  1) Acknowledge that gcc builds work on the AIX buildbots (a
     fact that has been entirely ignored so far).

  2) State the exact regression: msg364373 (which was also ignored,
     are you using xlc or xlc_r?) says that there have always been
     problems with xlc unless configured in a very specific manner.

     Then obviously we need the exact Python code that worked in
     3.7.6 but not in 3.7.7.


In short, given the flakiness of the xlc toolchain I'm not even
sure if anything can be classified as a regression. Most xlc users
I've talked to have switched to gcc.

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