Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> added the comment:

Mark Dickinson <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> Well, they're all in the standard, which is publicly available. 

I have the real thing. :)

> The correctness of the patch depends on:
> (2) an assumption that the C implementation will never raise an
>     'implementation-defined' signal (C99 6.3.1.3p3).  This seems
>     reasonable:  I'm fairly sure that this provision is there mainly
>     for systems using ones' complement or sign-magnitude
>     representations for signed integers, and it's safe to assume
>     that Python won't meet such systems.

This is what I was concerned about, but the assumption seems safe.

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