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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2016-08-21 09:23:23 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2016-08-21 09:23:23 (GMT)
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Issue #25604: Fix minor bug in integer true division, which could
have caused off-by-one-ulp results on certain platforms.
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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.6.0 beta 1
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #25604: Fix a minor bug in integer true division; this bug could
+ potentially have caused off-by-one-ulp results on platforms with
+ unreliable ldexp implementations.
+
- Issue #27662: Fix an overflow check in ``List_New``: the original code was
checking against ``Py_SIZE_MAX`` instead of the correct upper bound of
``Py_SSIZE_T_MAX``. Patch by Xiang Zhang.