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  r68903 | mark.dickinson | 2009-01-24 16:40:29 +0000 (Sat, 24 Jan 2009) | 5 lines

  Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was raising
  ValueError on some platforms as a result of the platform strtod setting
  errno on underflow.
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  r68906 | mark.dickinson | 2009-01-24 21:08:38 +0000 (Sat, 24 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #3657: fix occasional test_pickletools failures.
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diff --git a/Modules/_pickle.c b/Modules/_pickle.c
index 6536e6f..5813fd4 100644
--- a/Modules/_pickle.c
+++ b/Modules/_pickle.c
@@ -2958,7 +2958,8 @@
     errno = 0;
     d = PyOS_ascii_strtod(s, &endptr);
 
-    if (errno || (endptr[0] != '\n') || (endptr[1] != '\0')) {
+    if ((errno == ERANGE && !(fabs(d) <= 1.0)) ||
+        (endptr[0] != '\n') || (endptr[1] != '\0')) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "could not convert string to float");
         return -1;
     }