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  r77576 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-17 13:38:54 +0100 (dim., 17 janv. 2010) | 12 lines

  Merged revisions 77573 via svnmerge from
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    r77573 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-17 13:26:20 +0100 (dim., 17 janv. 2010) | 6 lines

    Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
    could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
    returning NULL.  The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
    string instead.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c3a9f5c..1fc9986 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
+  could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
+  returning NULL.  The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
+  string instead.
+
 - Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7
   alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
   occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c