Christian Heimes added the comment: Sounds like a good idea to me. Although all major platforms support IEEE Python should guarantee a stable behavior on all platforms.
The lines should be a safe replacement of the downcast: double fromd; float tof; tof = abs(fromd) >= FLT_MAX ? FLT_MAX : fromd; tof = (float)copysign((double)tof, fromd); By the way the release notes of Python should mention the our work on better IEEE-754 and numeric support in bold letters. "Python 2.6 - now with even better support for professional math in the core". It's a good advertisement. :) ____________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue705836> ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
