SF bug #422088: [OSF1 alpha] string.replace().
Platform blew up on "123".replace("123", ""). Michael Hudson pinned the
blame on platform malloc(0) returning NULL.
This is a candidate for all bugfix releases.
diff --git a/Lib/test/string_tests.py b/Lib/test/string_tests.py
index a408ef3..fcce50f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/string_tests.py
+++ b/Lib/test/string_tests.py
@@ -177,6 +177,12 @@
test('replace', 'one!two!three!', 'one@two@three@', '!', '@')
test('replace', 'one!two!three!', 'one!two!three!', 'x', '@')
test('replace', 'one!two!three!', 'one!two!three!', 'x', '@', 2)
+ # Next three for SF bug 422088: [OSF1 alpha] string.replace(); died with
+ # MemoryError due to empty result (platform malloc issue when requesting
+ # 0 bytes).
+ test('replace', '123', '', '123', '')
+ test('replace', '123123', '', '123', '')
+ test('replace', '123x123', 'x', '123', '')
test('startswith', 'hello', 1, 'he')
test('startswith', 'hello', 1, 'hello')