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r72564 | mark.dickinson | 2009-05-11 16:33:08 +0100 (Mon, 11 May 2009) | 2 lines
Issue #5981: Fix some float.fromhex bugs related to inf and nan handling.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
+ (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
+ rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
+ was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
+ didn't match that of float('-nan').
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Library
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