Merged revisions 82945 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/release27-maint ................ r82945 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-18 08:55:55 +0100 (Sun, 18 Jul 2010) | 14 lines Merged revisions 82941,82943 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r82941 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-18 08:29:02 +0100 (Sun, 18 Jul 2010) | 3 lines Issue #9277: Struct module: standard bool packing was incorrect if char is unsigned. Thanks Stefan Krah for the patch. ........ r82943 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-18 08:48:20 +0100 (Sun, 18 Jul 2010) | 1 line Misc/NEWS entry for r82941. ........ ................

--- a/Modules/_struct.c	Sat Jul 17 12:31:09 2010 +0000
+++ b/Modules/_struct.c	Sun Jul 18 08:01:37 2010 +0000
@@ -1013,9 +1013,9 @@
 static int
 bp_bool(char *p, PyObject *v, const formatdef *f)
 {
-    char y;
+    int y;
     y = PyObject_IsTrue(v);
-    memcpy(p, (char *)&y, sizeof y);
+    *p = (char)y;
     return 0;
 }