Thanks to noam for the patch! I had to modify doubledigits.c slightly to support X64 and IA64 machines on Windows. I also added the new file to the three project files.
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r59245 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-30 23:04:45 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
Move lchmod() docs to correct place, and add versionadded tags.
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r59249 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-30 23:36:10 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 2 lines
Backport of -r59242:59246 from py3k
Fixed problem with regrtest caused by the additional of objects to _abcoll.
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r59253 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-01 02:03:20 +0100 (Sat, 01 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Although pyconfig.h claims that WIN32 is obsolete it is still required for the locale module. locale.getdefaultlocale() fails silently w/o the WIN32 macro.
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r59254 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-01 12:20:10 +0100 (Sat, 01 Dec 2007) | 3 lines
Feature #1534
Added PyFloat_GetMax(), PyFloat_GetMin() and PyFloat_GetInfo() to the float API.
Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
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[ 1181301 ] make float packing copy bytes when they can
which hasn't been reviewed, despite numerous threats to check it in
anyway if noone reviews it. Please read the diff on the checkin list,
at least!
The basic idea is to examine the bytes of some 'probe values' to see if
the current platform is a IEEE 754-ish platform, and if so
_PyFloat_{Pack,Unpack}{4,8} just copy bytes around.
The rest is hair for testing, and tests.
Store floats and doubles to full precision in marshal.
Test that floats read from .pyc/.pyo closely match those read from .py.
Declare PyFloat_AsString() in floatobject header file.
Add new PyFloat_AsReprString() API function.
Document the functions declared in floatobject.h.
use the new names exclusively, and the linker will see the new names.
Files that import "Python.h" also only see the new names. Files that
import "allobjects.h" will continue to be able to use the old names,
due to the inclusion (in allobjects.h) of "rename2.h".
object.h: made sizes and refcnts signed ints.
stringobject.h: make getstrsize() signed int.
methodobject.h: add METH_VARARGS and METH_FREENAME flag bit definitions.
