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  r82159 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-22 14:21:52 -0500 (Tue, 22 Jun 2010) | 9 lines

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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 4464e62..e63f266 100644
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@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
   The removed code was mutating the ST, causing a second compilation
   to fail.
 
+- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
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 - 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).