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Correct a crash when two successive unicode allocations fail with a MemoryError:

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the freelist contained half-initialized objects with freed pointers.

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/* XXX UNREF/NEWREF interface should be more symmetrical */
was copied from tupleobject.c, and appears in some other places.
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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc 2008-07-31 23:39:05 +00:00
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Lib/test/test_unicode.py
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@ -1113,6 +1113,20 @@ def __format__(self, format_spec):
# will fail
self.assertRaises(UnicodeEncodeError, "foo{0}".format, u'\u1000bar')
def test_raiseMemError(self):
# Ensure that the freelist contains a consistent object, even
# when a string allocation fails with a MemoryError.
# This used to crash the interpreter,
# or leak references when the number was smaller.
try:
u"a" * (sys.maxint // 2 - 100)
except MemoryError:
pass
try:
u"a" * (sys.maxint // 2 - 100)
except MemoryError:
pass
def test_main():
test_support.run_unittest(__name__)