commit c8a608c6668df607638d00771d70b778b91bca81
author Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Sun Mar 29 15:19:47 2009 +0000
committer Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Sun Mar 29 15:19:47 2009 +0000
tree ef8b929ab797155a6b23f535f5085c89fc60e84e
parent 48e2478329b6be67d7858174d146d65f6ccfe728

Merged revisions 70678 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r70678 | mark.dickinson | 2009-03-29 15:37:51 +0100 (Sun, 29 Mar 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #532631: Replace confusing fabs(x)/1e25 >= 1e25 test
  with fabs(x) >= 1e50, and fix documentation.
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Objects/unicodeobject.c

diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index bcae239..f15e7cd 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -8847,7 +8847,7 @@
         return -1;
     if (prec < 0)
         prec = 6;
-    if (type == 'f' && (fabs(x) / 1e25) >= 1e25)
+    if (type == 'f' && fabs(x) >= 1e50)
         type = 'g';
     /* Worst case length calc to ensure no buffer overrun: