Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: This change is not backward compatible. Now user can mmap a larger file and safely access lower 2 GiB. With the patch it will fail.
Unix implementation uses unsafe integer overflow idiom which cause undefined behavior (Mark, you have the floor). ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16743> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
