diff Lib/test/test_array.py @ 49362:ea53163b06de legacy-trunk

fix for issue 3862: test_array fails FreeBSD 7 amd64 FreeBSD 7's underlying malloc() is behaves differently to earlier versions and seriously overcommits available memory on amd64. This may affect other 64bit platforms in some circumstances, so the scale of the problematic test is wound back. Patch by Mark Dickinson, reviewed by Martin von Loewis.
author Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>
date Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:25:25 +0000
parents 1c964ed35ef9
children e673632e1885
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--- a/Lib/test/test_array.py	Tue Sep 30 20:41:13 2008 +0000
+++ b/Lib/test/test_array.py	Wed Oct 01 03:25:25 2008 +0000
@@ -1011,20 +1011,21 @@
     minitemsize = 8
 
     def test_alloc_overflow(self):
+        from sys import maxsize
         a = array.array('d', [-1]*65536)
         try:
-            a *= 65536
+            a *= maxsize//65536 + 1
         except MemoryError:
             pass
         else:
-            self.fail("a *= 2**16 didn't raise MemoryError")
+            self.fail("Array of size > maxsize created - MemoryError expected")
         b = array.array('d', [ 2.71828183, 3.14159265, -1])
         try:
-            b * 1431655766
+            b * (maxsize//3 + 1)
         except MemoryError:
             pass
         else:
-            self.fail("a * 1431655766 didn't raise MemoryError")
+            self.fail("Array of size > maxsize created - MemoryError expected")
 
 tests.append(DoubleTest)