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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2006-09-05 02:18:09 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2006-09-05 02:18:09 (GMT)
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"Conceptual" merge of rev 51711 from the 2.5 branch.
i_divmod(): As discussed on Python-Dev, changed the overflow checking to live happily with recent gcc optimizations that assume signed integer arithmetic never overflows. This differs from the corresponding change on the 2.5 and 2.4 branches, using a less obscure approach, but one that /may/ tickle platform idiocies in their definitions of LONG_MIN. The 2.4 + 2.5 change avoided introducing a dependence on LONG_MIN, at the cost of substantially goofier code.
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
Core and builtins
-----------------
+- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
+ optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
+
- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
@@ -136,7 +139,7 @@ Library
- The __repr__ method of a NULL ctypes.py_object() no longer raises
an exception.
-- uuid.UUID now has a bytes_le attribute. This returns the UUID in
+- uuid.UUID now has a bytes_le attribute. This returns the UUID in
little-endian byte order for Windows. In addition, uuid.py gained some
workarounds for clocks with low resolution, to stop the code yielding
duplicate UUIDs.
@@ -295,7 +298,7 @@ Library
- Bug #1002398: The documentation for os.path.sameopenfile now correctly
refers to file descriptors, not file objects.
-- The renaming of the xml package to xmlcore, and the import hackery done
+- The renaming of the xml package to xmlcore, and the import hackery done
to make it appear at both names, has been removed. Bug #1511497,
#1513611, and probably others.