[pypy-commit] cffi default: More doc for 'long double'.

arigo noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Wed Aug 1 14:03:33 CEST 2012


Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: 
Changeset: r757:82f2e0a4b7a2
Date: 2012-08-01 14:01 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/82f2e0a4b7a2/

Log:	More doc for 'long double'.

diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -984,9 +984,10 @@
 
 .. versionadded:: 0.3
    (***) ``long double`` support.
-   Such numbers are passed around in a cdata object to avoid loosing
+   Such a number is passed around in a cdata object to avoid loosing
    precision, because a normal Python floating-point number only contains
-   enough precision for a ``double``.  If you want to operate on such numbers
+   enough precision for a ``double``.  To convert it to a regular float,
+   call ``float()``.  If you want to operate on such numbers
    without any precision loss, you need to define and use a family of C
    functions like ``long double add(long double a, long double b);``.
 


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