Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: The bug is present in the current version of dtoa.c from http://www.netlib.org/fp, so I'll report it upstream. As far as I can tell, though, it's benign, in the sense that if the check is disabled then nothing bad happens, and the correct result is eventually returned (albeit after some unnecessary computation).
I suspect that the problem is in the if block around lines 1531--1543 of Python/dtoa.c: a subnormal rv isn't being handled correctly here---it should end up being set to 0.0, but is instead set to 2**-968. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7632> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
