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r77578 | mark.dickinson | 2010-01-17 13:37:57 +0000 (Sun, 17 Jan 2010) | 2 lines
Issue #7632: Fix a memory leak in _Py_dg_strtod.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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alpha 2, including: (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could
occur for long (> 40 digit) input strings, (2) a crash in dtoa.c
that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long numeric
- strings corresponding to subnormal values, and (3) a number of flaws
- that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
+ strings corresponding to subnormal values, (3) a memory leak for
+ some values large enough to cause overflow, and (4) a number of
+ flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
AttributeError.