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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-12-30 16:22:49 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-12-30 16:22:49 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 77139-77140 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r77139 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-30 12:12:23 +0000 (Wed, 30 Dec 2009) | 3 lines Issue #7534: Fix handling of nans, infinities, and negative zero in ** operator, on IEEE 754 platforms. Thanks Marcos Donolo for original patch. ........ r77140 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-30 12:22:49 +0000 (Wed, 30 Dec 2009) | 1 line Add Marcos Donolo for work on issue 7534 patch. ........
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@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ Yves Dionne
Daniel Dittmar
Jaromir Dolecek
Ismail Donmez
+Marcos Donolo
Dima Dorfman
Cesar Douady
Dean Draayer
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
+ negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
+ described in C99 Annex F.
+
- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in