Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

Do we consider these overflows as bugs in Python, or do we declare that we 
expect compilers to "do the right thing" for the bug fix releases (i.e. care 
only about the default branch). I'd personally vote for the latter - i.e. don't 
apply any of the resulting changes to the maintenance releases, and target the 
issue only for 3.3.

Realistically, a compiler that invokes truly undefined behavior for signed 
overflow has no chance of getting 3.2 compiled correctly, and we have no chance 
of finding all these issues within the lifetime of 3.2.

If that is agreed, I would start committing changes that fix the issues Mark 
already discussed in 2009 (unless he wants to commit them himself).

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priority: high -> normal

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