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Revision 58d23ae9a919520ee5b849a4c6c48fa833c9958d authored by Tim Peters on 20 March 2003, 18:31:20 UTC, committed by Tim Peters on 20 March 2003, 18:31:20 UTC 
SF bug 705836: struct.pack of floats in non-native endian order
 
pack_float, pack_double, save_float:  All the routines for creating
IEEE-format packed representations of floats and doubles simply ignored
that rounding can (in rare cases) propagate out of a long string of
1 bits.  At worst, the end-off carry can (by mistake) interfere with
the exponent value, and then unpacking yields a result wrong by a factor
of 2.  In less severe cases, it can end up losing more low-order bits
than intended, or fail to catch overflow *caused* by rounding.
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Tip revision: 58d23ae9a919520ee5b849a4c6c48fa833c9958d authored by Tim Peters on 20 March 2003, 18:31:20 UTC
SF bug 705836: struct.pack of floats in non-native endian order
Tip revision: 58d23ae
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