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  r81967 | mark.dickinson | 2010-06-13 11:50:29 +0100 (Sun, 13 Jun 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #8986: erfc was raising OverflowError on Linux for arguments in
  the (approximate) range (-27.3, 30.0), as a result of an escaped errno
  value.
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+- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
+  values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
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 - Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
 
 - Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its