cpython

History

Jeremy Hylton d808279be3 Double-fix of crash in Unicode freelist handling. If a length-1 Unicode string was in the freelist and it was uninitialized or pointed to a very large (magnitude) negative number, the check unicode_latin1[unicode->str[0]] == unicode could cause a segmentation violation, e.g. unicode->str[0] is 0xcbcbcbcb. Fix this in two ways: 1. Change guard befor unicode_latin1[] to test against 256U. If I understand correctly, the unsigned long used to store UCS4 on my box was getting converted to a signed long to compare with the signed constant 256. 2. Change _PyUnicode_New() to make sure the first element of str is always initialized to zero. There are several places in the code where the caller can exit with an error before initializing any of str, which would leave junk in str[0]. Also, silence a compiler warning on pointer vs. int arithmetic. Bug fix candidate.		2003-09-16 19:41:39 +00:00
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RPM	2.3b1 patches	2003-02-24 17:55:37 +00:00
ACKS	SF 798269: bug fix for doctest (sf bug id: 798254	2003-09-02 02:17:46 +00:00
AIX-NOTES	The fix to use . was incorporated	2003-06-08 02:25:17 +00:00
BeOS-NOTES	Completely revamped BeOS notes, by Donn Cave (SF patch 411834).	2001-04-10 21:51:29 +00:00
BeOS-setup.py	SF patch 568629 by Oren Tirosh: types made callable.	2002-06-14 20:41:17 +00:00
HISTORY	migrate news about 2.1 and earlier releases from NEWS to HISTORY in	2002-09-17 20:55:31 +00:00
NEWS	Double-fix of crash in Unicode freelist handling.	2003-09-16 19:41:39 +00:00
NEWS.help	Updated (2.3 OK now)	2003-01-03 03:29:58 +00:00
PURIFY.README	Updated for Python 1.5, including my experiences with Purify on	1997-10-07 15:50:58 +00:00
Porting	Patch #411138 : Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774 .	2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
README	mention pymemcompat.h in Misc/README	2003-08-11 16:18:43 +00:00
RFD	Initial revision	1994-01-26 10:20:16 +00:00
SpecialBuilds.txt	_Py_PrintReferenceAddresses(): also print the type name. In real use	2003-04-18 00:45:59 +00:00
cheatsheet	Update for new module and new builtin.	2003-07-12 23:55:57 +00:00
find_recursionlimit.py	script that reports a fairly safe recursionlimit for a specific platform	2000-08-31 19:24:17 +00:00
gdbinit	PyObject_Dump() -> _PyObject_Dump()	2001-01-24 04:18:13 +00:00
indent.pro	Some new files...	1994-09-14 14:06:46 +00:00
pymemcompat.h	Fix grammatically inept comment.	2002-08-22 13:36:11 +00:00
python-mode.el	delete the f1 key binding. py-help-at-point is still available @ C-c C-h.	2003-08-01 04:27:34 +00:00
python.man	Remove -U from argument list.	2003-05-26 05:15:35 +00:00
setuid-prog.c	correct bogus instructions 'ccoment out' -> 'uncomment'	1998-09-10 20:18:09 +00:00
vgrindefs	Add 'yield' as a keyword	2001-08-06 17:42:53 +00:00

README

Python Misc subdirectory
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This directory contains files that wouldn't fit in elsewhere.  Some
documents are only of historic importance.

Files found here
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ACKS		Acknowledgements
AIX-NOTES	Notes for building Python on AIX
BeOS-NOTES	Notes for building on BeOS
BeOS-setup.py	setup.py replacement for BeOS, see BeOS-NOTES
cheatsheet	Quick summary of Python by Ken Manheimer
find_recursionlimit.py  Script to find a value for sys.maxrecursionlimit
gdbinit		Handy stuff to put in your .gdbinit file, if you use gdb
HISTORY		News from previous releases -- oldest last
HPUX-NOTES	Notes about dynamic loading under HP-UX
indent.pro	GNU indent profile approximating my C style
NEWS		News for this release (for some meaning of "this")
Porting		Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
PURIFY.README	Information for Purify users
pymemcompat.h	Memory interface compatibility file.
python.man	UNIX man page for the python interpreter
python-mode.el	Emacs mode for editing Python programs
README		The file you're reading now
RFD		Request For Discussion about a Python newsgroup
RPM		(Old) tools to build RPMs
SpecialBuilds.txt     Describes extra symbols you can set for debug builds
setuid-prog.c	C helper program for set-uid Python scripts
vgrindefs	Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)