[minion-cvs] Check explicity for 32-bit ints for getInt; clarify XXX...

[nickm@seul.org (Nick Mathewson)]

Update of /home/minion/cvsroot/src/minion/lib/mixminion
In directory moria.seul.org:/tmp/cvs-serv8910/lib/mixminion

Modified Files:
	Crypto.py 
Log Message:
Check explicity for 32-bit ints for getInt; clarify XXXX comments

Index: Crypto.py
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RCS file: /home/minion/cvsroot/src/minion/lib/mixminion/Crypto.py,v
retrieving revision 1.23
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -d -r1.23 -r1.24
--- Crypto.py	22 Nov 2002 00:21:20 -0000	1.23
+++ Crypto.py	2 Dec 2002 03:22:28 -0000	1.24
@@ -426,6 +426,10 @@
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Random number generators
 
+# The getInt code below assumes that ints are at least 32 bits long. Here
+# we assert it.
+assert sys.maxint >= 0x7fffffff
+
 class RNG:
     '''Base implementation class for random number generators.  Works
        by requesting a bunch of bytes via self._prng, and doling them
@@ -484,7 +488,8 @@
         # FFFF This implementation is about 2-4x as good as the last one, but
 	# FFFF still could be better.  It's faster than getFloat()*max.
 
-	# XXXX (This code assumes that integers are at least 32 bits.)
+	# FFFF (This code assumes that integers are at least 32 bits. Maybe
+	# FFFF  we could do better.)
 
         assert 0 < max < 0x3fffffff
 	_ord = ord