[Python-Dev] new failing test -- test_compiler

[Michael Hudson]

Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> writes:

> [Tim]
>>> Alas, test_compiler still fails (but in an ordinary "doesn't work"
>>> way, no longer in an internal-error way), so testing with -uall is
>>> still a bit broken.
>
> [Jeremy]
>> I won't be able to fix it today, but I'll get on that asap.
>
> That's OK.  I agree it's valuable to run this, so I fixed it. 
> test_compiler passes on Windows now.  But I have a gigabyte of RAM on
> this box to hold the stack <wink>.

I actually worked out the fix on Saturday but succumbed to hunger
before the test run finished :-)

Cheers,
mwh

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