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Update the warning about transporting marshals across boxes with different
ideas about sizeof(long).
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should not be written (they will cause infinite loops).
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\strong{Caveat:} On machines where C's \code{long int} type has more than
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32 bits (such as the DEC Alpha), it
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is possible to create plain Python integers that are longer than 32
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bits. Since the current \module{marshal} module uses 32 bits to
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transfer plain Python integers, such values are silently truncated.
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This particularly affects the use of very long integer literals in
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Python modules --- these will be accepted by the parser on such
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machines, but will be silently be truncated when the module is read
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from the \file{.pyc} instead.\footnote{
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A solution would be to refuse such literals in the parser,
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since they are inherently non-portable. Another solution would be to
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let the \module{marshal} module raise an exception when an integer
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value would be truncated. At least one of these solutions will be
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implemented in a future version.}
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32 bits (such as the DEC Alpha), it is possible to create plain Python
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integers that are longer than 32 bits.
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If such an integer is marshaled and read back in on a machine where
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C's \code{long int} type has only 32 bits, a Python long integer object
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is returned instead. While of a different type, the numeric value is
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the same. (This behavior is new in Python 2.2. In earlier versions,
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all but the least-significant 32 bits of the value were lost, and a
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warning message was printed.)
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There are functions that read/write files as well as functions
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operating on strings.
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