[issue29816] Get rid of C limitation for shift count in right shift
STINNER Victor
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Wed Mar 15 06:03:27 EDT 2017
STINNER Victor added the comment:
> I think an OverflowError is appropriate here for denoting the platform and implementation limitation.
It's common that integer overflow on memory allocation in C code raises a MemoryError, not an OverflowError.
>>> "x" * (2**60)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
MemoryError
I suggest to raise a MemoryError.
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