commit 5a95ba29da7e55fe6a8777b6ea4c68f60cf0e407
author Eric Lippert <eric@lippert.com> Mon Oct 22 08:52:46 2018 -0700
committer Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl> Mon Oct 22 16:52:46 2018 +0100
tree 51e246406df188ece6d7de1aee7a6e7f4e02f2c4
parent 2447773573e74819e163f8963ab107bc5db123e5

Fix issue 34551 - remove redundant store (#9009)

The assignment of i/2 to nk is redundant because on this code path, nk is already the size of the dictionary, and i is already twice the size of the dictionary. I've replaced the store with an assertion that i/2 is nk.

Objects/call.c

diff --git a/Objects/call.c b/Objects/call.c
index 1937a8b..bda0573 100644
--- a/Objects/call.c
+++ b/Objects/call.c
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@
             Py_INCREF(k[i+1]);
             i += 2;
         }
-        nk = i / 2;
+        assert(i / 2 == nk);
     }
     else {
         kwtuple = NULL;