[issue16743] mmap on Windows can mishandle files larger than sys.maxsize

[Richard Oudkerk]

Richard Oudkerk added the comment:

On 27/01/2013 9:06pm, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> Every bugfix breaks some code. As a compromise I propose set
 > m_obj->size = PY_SSIZE_T_MAX in case of overflow and emit a warning.

Trying to allocate PY_SSIZE_T_MAX bytes always seems to fail with

     WindowsError: [Error 8] Not enough storage is available to process
     this command

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