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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 e8eab86..832f7df 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
+
- 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).
diff --git a/Objects/exceptions.c b/Objects/exceptions.c
index af67cc7..a0d7b53 100644
--- a/Objects/exceptions.c
+++ b/Objects/exceptions.c
@@ -1785,9 +1785,6 @@
const char *encoding, const char *object, Py_ssize_t length,
Py_ssize_t start, Py_ssize_t end, const char *reason)
{
- assert(length < INT_MAX);
- assert(start < INT_MAX);
- assert(end < INT_MAX);
return PyObject_CallFunction(PyExc_UnicodeDecodeError, "ss#nns",
encoding, object, length, start, end, reason);
}