Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> added the comment: You can simulate this on Linux by compiling with:
BASECFLAGS="-funsigned-char" Then: Index: Parser/tokenizer.c =================================================================== --- Parser/tokenizer.c (revision 81682) +++ Parser/tokenizer.c (working copy) @@ -1366,6 +1366,8 @@ break; } while (Py_ISALNUM(c) || c == '_') { + c = EOF; // tok_nextc can return EOF + printf("c: %d\n", Py_CHARMASK(c)); c = tok_nextc(tok); } tok_backup(tok, c); >>> eval("abcd") c: -1 c: -1 c: -1 c: -1 c: -1 c: -1 Also, during compilation you get tons of warnings about using char as an array subscript: Objects/stringlib/split.h: In function ‘stringlib_split_whitespace’: Objects/stringlib/split.h:70: warning: array subscript has type ‘char’ Objects/stringlib/split.h:74: warning: array subscript has type ‘char’ Objects/stringlib/split.h:91: warning: array subscript has type ‘char’ ---------- title: 2.7: eval hangs on AIX -> Specification of Py_CHARMASK _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9020> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com