Try to repair what may be the last new test failure on the
"x86 OpenBSD trunk" buildbot due to changing Python so that
Python-exposed addresses are always non-negative.
test_int_pointer_arg(): This line failed now whenever the
box happened to assign an address to `ci` "with the sign
bit set":
self.failUnlessEqual(addressof(ci), func(byref(ci)))
The problem is that the ctypes addressof() inherited "all
addresses are non-negative now" from changes to
PyLong_FromVoidPtr(), but byref() did not inherit that
change and can still return a negative int.
I don't know whether, or what, the ctypes implementation wants
to do about that (possibly nothing), but in the meantime
the test fails frequently.
So, introduced a Python positive_address() function in
the test module, that takes a purported machine address and,
if negative, converts it to a non-negative value "with the
same bits". This should leave the test passing under all
versions of Python.
Belated thanks to Armin Rigo for teaching me the sick trick ;-)
for determining the # of bits in a machine pointer via abuse
of the struct module.
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