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  r82157 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-22 14:16:37 -0500 (Tue, 22 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  remove INT_MAX assertions; they can fail with large Py_ssize_t #9058
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 550dda3..2c6083d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
 - Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
   filenames and enable os.fsencode().
 
+- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
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 - Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
   the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
   (higher than 0x10000).