Oct. 11, 2000
9:19 p.m.
Thanks for digging deeper into this.
Pesonally, I think the patch should just be reversed... The comment above the check certainly could be read as 'Linux requires -lieee for correct f.p. operations', and perhaps that's how it was meant.
No, the configure patch is right. Tim will check in a change that treats ERANGE with a return value of 0.0 as underflow (returning 0.0, not raising OverflowError). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)