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| author | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2010-01-16 18:10:25 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2010-01-16 18:10:25 (GMT) |
| commit | 45b6365974b6611c3dc1c2e48c55d36ca0e500d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 99efe4dbc813f8381d58498b33161f1f683da55c /Misc | |
| parent | 747e8b3f589d2f951088cd9c27cdf6097440b878 (diff) | |
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Merged revisions 77519,77530,77533 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r77519 | mark.dickinson | 2010-01-16 10:44:00 +0000 (Sat, 16 Jan 2010) | 5 lines
Issue #7632: Fix a serious wrong output bug for string -> float conversion.
Also remove some now unused variables, and add comments clarifying the
possible outputs of the parsing section of _Py_dg_strtod. Thanks
Eric Smith for reviewing.
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r77530 | mark.dickinson | 2010-01-16 17:57:49 +0000 (Sat, 16 Jan 2010) | 3 lines
Issue #7632: Fix one more case of incorrect rounding for str -> float
conversion (see bug 5 in the issue tracker).
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r77533 | mark.dickinson | 2010-01-16 18:06:17 +0000 (Sat, 16 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Fix multiple uses of variable 'L' in _Py_dg_strtod, where one use requires an unsigned long and the other a signed long. See also r77421.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ Core and Builtins methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna. -- Issue #7632: Fix a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds - when parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal - values. Also fix a number of bugs in dtoa.c that could lead to - incorrectly rounded results when converting strings to floats. +- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 + 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. - The __complex__ method is now looked up on the class of instances to make it consistent with other special methods. |