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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/output/test_math1
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_math.py29
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/output/test_math b/Lib/test/output/test_math
index 2a98000..bce7dde 100644
--- a/Lib/test/output/test_math
+++ b/Lib/test/output/test_math
@@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ sinh
sqrt
tan
tanh
+exceptions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_math.py b/Lib/test/test_math.py
index 6d6bc44..1f31dc5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_math.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_math.py
@@ -152,3 +152,32 @@ testit('tan(-pi/4)', math.tan(-math.pi/4), -1)
print 'tanh'
testit('tanh(0)', math.tanh(0), 0)
testit('tanh(1)+tanh(-1)', math.tanh(1)+math.tanh(-1), 0)
+
+print 'exceptions' # oooooh, *this* is a x-platform gamble! good luck
+
+try:
+ x = math.exp(-1000000000)
+except:
+ # mathmodule.c is failing to weed out underflows from libm, or
+ # we've got an fp format with huge dynamic range
+ raise TestFailed("underflowing exp() should not have rasied an exception")
+if x != 0:
+ raise TestFailed("underflowing exp() should have returned 0")
+
+# If this fails, probably using a strict IEEE-754 conforming libm, and x
+# is +Inf afterwards. But Python wants overflows detected by default.
+try:
+ x = math.exp(1000000000)
+except OverflowError:
+ pass
+else:
+ raise TestFailed("overflowing exp() didn't trigger OverflowError")
+
+# If this fails, it could be a puzzle. One odd possibility is that
+# mathmodule.c's CHECK() macro is getting confused while comparing
+# Inf (HUGE_VAL) to a NaN, and artificially setting errno to ERANGE
+# as a result (and so raising OverflowError instead).
+try:
+ x = math.sqrt(-1.0)
+except ValueError:
+ pass