Pablo Galindo Salgado <pablog...@gmail.com> added the comment: > In other words, contrary to your earlier dismissal, you did NOT run _decimal on AIX with MAX_PREC but just ran the 3.7.6 tests that do not include any tests with MAX_PREC.
I did, and it raises MemoryError: ❯ uname -a AIX 1 7 powerpc 00CCAD974C00 AIX ❯ python3.7 --version Python 3.7.6 ❯ python3.7 Lib/test/test_decimal.py ... ====================================================================== ERROR: test_maxcontext_exact_arith (__main__.CWhitebox) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "Lib/test/test_decimal.py", line 5506, in test_maxcontext_exact_arith self.assertEqual(Decimal(4).sqrt(), 2) MemoryError ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39576> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com