int(long(-sys.maxint-1)) fails on Linux

[Chad Netzer]

Tim Peters wrote:

> Anyway, the lea is simply using a scaled-index addressing mode, with a 0
> base, a 0 offset, and with %edx treated as a "scale by 2" (shift left by 1)
> scaled index.
>
> Check out this link:
>
> http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/burks/burks/language/asm/artofasm/artof001.htm
>

Thanks for the reference, Tim.  I read it for ~20 minutes, and was enlightened. :-)

Cheers,
Chad