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| author | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2010-01-16 10:44:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2010-01-16 10:44:00 (GMT) |
| commit | 476279f18b1bbcc5939f6bb7a10dd937c933cfb3 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a4f840b7f56e536ba736d5a46079f5a65a7285b /Misc | |
| parent | ed44dfa4c7dd03488da6e23c9901af7185af8302 (diff) | |
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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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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. - Issue #7319, #7770: Silence DeprecationWarning by default when -3 is not used. |