Reduce the size of Big String and Big Binary tests to 2**14 (minus one
for Big String). This should make the tests pass on Win98SE. Note
that the docs only promise lengths up to 2048. Unfortunately this no
longer tests for the segfault I was seeing earlier, but I'm confident
I've nailed that one. :-) Fixes SF 852281.
library search path to include the extension directory. Without this,
the curses_panel extension can't find the curses extension/DLL, which
exports some curses symbols to it.
comments about why both calls to cyclic gc here can cause problems.
Already fixed on the trunk. Since the calls were introduced in 2.3,
that's the end of it.
Remove all uses of alloca() from this module. The alloca() return value
isn't checked, and it *is* possible that a very large alloca() call is
made, e.g. when a large registry value is being read. I don't know if
alloca() in that case returns NULL or returns a pointer pointing outside
the stack, and I don't want to know -- I've simply replaced all calls to
alloca() with either PyMem_Malloc() or PyString_FromStringAndSize(NULL,)
as appropriate, followed by a size check. This addresses SF buf 851056.
