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r77576 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-17 13:38:54 +0100 (dim., 17 janv. 2010) | 12 lines
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r77573 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-17 13:26:20 +0100 (dim., 17 janv. 2010) | 6 lines
Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
string instead.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
+ could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
+ returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
+ string instead.
+
- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7
alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c