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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2013-11-26 16:19:13 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2013-11-26 16:19:13 (GMT)
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Issue #19638: Raise ValueError instead of crashing when converting billion character strings to float.
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@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ What's New in Python 3.3.4 release candidate 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #19638: Fix possible crash / undefined behaviour from huge (more than 2
+ billion characters) input strings in _Py_dg_strtod.
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Library
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