[ python-Bugs-868864 ] 8-bit string literal with iso8859 coding => crash

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Bugs item #868864, was opened at 2004-01-01 18:30
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Category: Parser/Compiler
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: L. Peter Deutsch (lpd)
Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: 8-bit string literal with iso8859 coding => crash

Initial Comment:
Environment:
Python 2.3.3, built from unmodified out-of-the-tarball
sources
(./configure, make, make install)
Red Hat Linux 7.3, SMP build from source (2 Athlon CPUs)

Symptom:
python out.py
Segmentation fault


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Comment By: Jarek Zgoda (zgoda)
Date: 2004-01-02 09:58

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Python 2.3.2 (#49, Oct  2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
Windows 2kSP4
Effect is the same - Python crashes with "memory can not be
written".

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Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2004-01-01 20:53

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Looks like there may be an off-by-1 error in the
implementation of PEP263.  Attached is a valgrind report. 
Martin, do you have any ideas?

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Comment By: L. Peter Deutsch (lpd)
Date: 2004-01-01 18:32

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'make test' ran with no problems.


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