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authorMark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>2012-04-15 14:19:06 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>2012-04-15 14:19:06 (GMT)
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Issue #13889: On MSVC builds, set FPU control word at runtime for all string <-> float conversions. Patch by Samuel Iseli and Stefan Krah.
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@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.7.4
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
+ any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
+ Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
+
- Issue #14505: Fix file descriptor leak when deallocating file objects
created with PyFile_FromString().