[issue7743] Additional potential string -> float conversion issues.
Mark Dickinson
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Jan 23 13:33:05 CET 2010
Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at 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 altered STRTOD_DIGLIM value, though.
> I presume you meant *with* bigcomp enabled?
I did. Thanks!
> Forgive my lack of knowledge, but why would you disable bigcomp?
Just as a stress test, really: a failure that occurs with bigcomp disabled might indicate a problem that could also occur with bigcomp enabled. Or someone might want to alter the value of the STRTOD_DIGLIM threshold at some later point based on performance tests; if the code is correct then it ought to be safe to do so.
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