open() and io.TextIOWrapper are now calling locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
instead of locale.getpreferredencoding() in text mode if the encoding is not
specified. Don't change temporary the locale encoding using locale.setlocale(),
use the current locale encoding instead of the user preferred encoding.
Explain also in open() documentation that locale.getpreferredencoding(False) is
called if the encoding is not specified.
Underflow to zero hasn't changed: _mpd_qexp() internally uses MIN_EMIN,
so the result would also underflow to zero for all emin > MIN_EMIN.
In case digits are left, the informal argument is as follows: Underflow can
occur only once in the last multiplication of the power stage (in the Horner
stage Underflow provably cannot occur, and if Underflow occurred twice in
the power stage, the result would underflow to zero on the second occasion).
Since there is no double rounding during Underflow, the effective work
precision is now 1 <= result->digits < prec. It can be shown by a somewhat
tedious argument that abs(result - e**x) < ulp(result, result->digits).
Therefore the correct rounding loop now uses ulp(result, result->digits)
to generate the bounds for e**x in case of Underflow.
An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and ctypes.c_float that
caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the case of overflow has been
fixed.
An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and ctypes.c_float that
caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the case of overflow has been
fixed.