STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:

> Because I am not familiar about how to contribute a patch, I doubt it's 
> reasonable to write a test which will consuming more than 2GB memory space? 
> Because if write a test to cover this case, we will build a string larger 
> than 2GB, and use socket to send it. Dose the machine running tests have 
> enough memory resource?

Most computers have at least 4 GB of memory. It would be possible to write a 
"bigmem" test which build a string longer than 2 GiB, send it and check the 
received length, but I'm not sure that it's worth it: there is no such test in 
the master branch.

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