[Python-Dev] test_array failure on AIX

[Vladimir Marangozov]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> Look at b_setitem() in arraymodule.c.
> 
> What is CHAR_MIN?
> 
> Do you perchance have unsigned characters???

This answers your question:

/usr/include/sys/limits.h:#define CHAR_MIN      (0)
/usr/include/sys/limits.h:#define SCHAR_MIN     (-SCHAR_MAX - 1)

> 
> If so, let's just replace CHAR_MIN with -128 and CHAR_MAX with 127.

Yes!
I #undef/define'd them like this in arraymodule.c and the test passes.

Thanks!

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