Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk added the comment:
Out of curiosity, is it possible to write unit tests for any/all of this?
I haven't yet found any examples that cause this crash without bigcomp
enabled.
I presume you meant *with* bigcomp enabled?
Forgive my lack of knowledge, but
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
Out of curiosity, is it possible to write unit tests for any/all of this?
There are some tests in Lib/test/test_strtod.py, that I added around two weeks
ago and have been updating since; I don't have mechanism for running tests
with the
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
I forgot to mention: the other reason one might want to disable the bigcomp
stuff is that it seems less reliable than the rest of the code: of the 11-12
independent bugs that I found in dtoa.c recently, around 9 of them were related
to
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
First bug fixed (in the trunk) in r77713.
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Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
Second bug listed here fixed in r77698 in the trunk.
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1. Another potential crash caused by Python/dtoa.c: if the bigcomp
functionality is disabled by replacing #define STRTOD_DIGLIM 40 with #define
STRTOD_DIGLIM 4000, then the following string causes a crash:
s =
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Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
Okay, it's not that difficult to trigger (2). With the bigcomp functionality
disabled as above:
AssertionError: Incorrectly rounded str-float conversion for
