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Message404220

Author	Dennis Sweeney
Recipients	Dennis Sweeney, bup, rhettinger, xtreak
Date	2021-10-18.20:53:29
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Message-id	<1634590409.78.0.719292028086.issue34192@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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From https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/test/crashers/bogus_code_obj.py : """ Broken bytecode objects can easily crash the interpreter. This is not going to be fixed. It is generally agreed that there is no point in writing a bytecode verifier and putting it in CPython just for this. Moreover, a verifier is bound to accept only a subset of all safe bytecodes, so it could lead to unnecessary breakage. """ Since this is messing with implementation details of code objects, I'll close this as "won't fix".

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From https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/test/crashers/bogus_code_obj.py :


"""
Broken bytecode objects can easily crash the interpreter.

This is not going to be fixed.  It is generally agreed that there is no
point in writing a bytecode verifier and putting it in CPython just for
this.  Moreover, a verifier is bound to accept only a subset of all safe
bytecodes, so it could lead to unnecessary breakage.
"""

Since this is messing with implementation details of code objects, I'll close this as "won't fix".

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Date	User	Action	Args
2021-10-18 20:53:29	Dennis Sweeney	set	recipients: + Dennis Sweeney, rhettinger, bup, xtreak
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