[Python-Dev] test_builtin failing? or just 64-bit platforms

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim.one@home.com> writes:

    TP> It doesn't make sense, but it *smells* like a sprintf ->
    TP> PyOS_snprintf screwup ... OK, our int repr code has always
    TP> been wrong(!):

    | static PyObject *
    | int_repr(PyIntObject *v)
    | {
    | 	char buf[20];
    | 	PyOS_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%ld", v->ob_ival);
    | 	return PyString_FromString(buf);
    | }

    TP> 20 bytes isn't enough to hold the result on a 64-bit box
    TP> (insert rant about the idiot practice of trying to make stack
    TP> buffers as small as possible).  You have 20 characters in your
    TP> result, but need 21 to hold the trailing 0 byte too.  I don't
    TP> know what snprintf does when there's not enough room, but I
    TP> think you just showed us what it does on Tru64 <wink>.

Heh, I was going to suggest that this might be a good place to
substitute a call to PyString_FromFormat*() but then I read this
little nugget:

			case 'd': case 'i': case 'x':
				(void) va_arg(count, int);
				/* 20 bytes should be enough to hold a 64-bit
				   integer */
				n += 20;
				break;

love-ly y'rs,
-Barry