New submission from Kandalintsev Alexandre <bug_hun...@messir.net>: Documentation says that
======== There’s no chance that the reference count can overflow; at least as many bits are used to hold the reference count as there are distinct memory locations in virtual memory (assuming sizeof(Py_ssize_t) >= sizeof(void*)). Thus, the reference count increment is a simple operation. ======== But Py_ssize_t is a signed type so in case of sizeof(Py_ssize_t) == sizeof (void*)) it can only reference a half of memmory :). But because any python object consumes much more than 2bytes this is not a problem. ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 78695 nosy: exe, georg.brandl severity: normal status: open title: little inaccuracy in Py_ssize_t explanation versions: Python 3.0, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4800> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
