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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-01-17 14:39:12 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-01-17 14:39:12 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 77578 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r77578 | mark.dickinson | 2010-01-17 13:37:57 +0000 (Sun, 17 Jan 2010) | 2 lines Issue #7632: Fix a memory leak in _Py_dg_strtod. ........
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@@ -33,8 +33,9 @@ Core and Builtins
alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c
that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long numeric
- strings corresponding to subnormal values, and (3) a number of flaws
- that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
+ strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a memory leak for
+ some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number of
+ flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
- The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it
consistent with other special methods.