From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 17:33:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch (by Andrew Kuchling of course) to prevent named back references
X-Git-Tag: v1.5~164
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1eadb4103640d874312b9da7b31fa2166996d043;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Patch (by Andrew Kuchling of course) to prevent named back references
in the pattern to wear out the reference count on small integers.
---

diff --git a/Modules/pypcre.c b/Modules/pypcre.c
index 797d955b397c..699932fc5e4c 100644
--- a/Modules/pypcre.c
+++ b/Modules/pypcre.c
@@ -1832,7 +1832,7 @@ for (;; ptr++)
 	      }
 
 	      refnum = PyInt_AsLong(intobj);
-	      Py_DECREF(string); Py_DECREF(intobj);
+	      Py_DECREF(string); 
 	      *code++ = OP_REF;
 	      *code++ = refnum;
 	      /* The continue will cause the top-level for() loop to