Issue #3657: Fix uninitialized memory read when pickling longs.
The conversion to the unicode API was incorrect, it should use bytes.
repr is a bad variable name. The use is overloaded, but I'll leave
that to fix later.
R=Brett
TESTED=./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -uall
valgrind -q --leak-check=yes --suppressions=Misc/valgrind-python.supp \
./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py test_pickletools
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b846d8f..8594c99 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #3657: Fix uninitialized memory read when pickling longs.
+ Found by valgrind.
+
- Apply security patches from Apple.
- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.