[issue35091] Objects/listobject.c: gallop functions rely on signed integer overflow

[Alexey Izbyshev]

Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev at ispras.ru> added the comment:

> This doesn't actually matter - the code can never trigger.

Yes, I considered this, and wondered why assert wasn't used in the first place, but the explicit check with a comment suggested that possibility of overflow was deemed real.

I've submitted a third PR that simply removes the checks and adds asserts instead.

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