Jim Ahlstrom patch: cutoff should be a long for machines with 16-bit
ints. (In theory, other variables should be widened to long as well,
but this won't ever be needed, since the len of a list is still an
int.)
diff --git a/Objects/listobject.c b/Objects/listobject.c
index df2108c..51d3d07 100644
--- a/Objects/listobject.c
+++ b/Objects/listobject.c
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@
is undesirable, so cutoff values are canned in the "cutoff" table
below: cutoff[i] is the smallest N such that k == CUTOFFBASE + i. */
#define CUTOFFBASE 4
-static int cutoff[] = {
+static long cutoff[] = {
43, /* smallest N such that k == 4 */
106, /* etc */
250,