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  r77501 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-14 18:34:48 +0100 (jeu., 14 janv. 2010) | 10 lines

  Merged revisions 77499 via svnmerge from
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    r77499 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-14 18:25:24 +0100 (jeu., 14 janv. 2010) | 4 lines

    Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad
    argument values in debug mode.  Patch by Victor Stinner.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index 383b56a..7ef57e1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -696,6 +696,12 @@
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, re.compile, '(?a)\w', re.UNICODE)
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, re.compile, '(?au)\w')
 
+    def test_dealloc(self):
+        # issue 3299: check for segfault in debug build
+        import _sre
+        long_overflow = sys.maxsize + 2
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, re.finditer, "a", {})
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, _sre.compile, "abc", 0, [long_overflow])
 
 def run_re_tests():
     from test.re_tests import benchmarks, tests, SUCCEED, FAIL, SYNTAX_ERROR