[Python-Dev] Memory size overflows

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net>:

> I'll repeat that it's hard to do this correctly and quickly (c.f. earlier
> comments about the history of Python's subtly buggy attempts).

The really tragic thing about all this is that most
machines have perfectly good facilities for detecting
overflow at the machine level, but no commonly used
HLL that I know of provides access to them, for some 
unfathomable reason.

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