Message 137770 - Python tracker

Message137770

Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	Thanh Ly, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, terry.reedy
Date	2011-06-06.19:51:01
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> Is it possible that the problem is related to floating point exceptions? Hmm. It's possible, but it's still a bit surprising that the crash occurs at import time rather than when calling one of the cmath functions. But it's very possible that there are some missing PyFPE_START_PROTECT macros in the cmath source. BTW, if the problem is in cmath, it's likely to also occur with Python 2.7: that module changed very little between 2.6 and 2.7.

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> Is it possible that the problem is related to floating point exceptions?

Hmm.  It's possible, but it's still a bit surprising that the crash occurs at import time rather than when calling one of the cmath functions.  But it's very possible that there are some missing PyFPE_START_PROTECT macros in the cmath source.

BTW, if the problem *is* in cmath, it's likely to also occur with Python 2.7:  that module changed very little between 2.6 and 2.7.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-06-06 19:51:01	mark.dickinson	set	recipients: + mark.dickinson, terry.reedy, amaury.forgeotdarc, Thanh Ly
2011-06-06 19:51:01	mark.dickinson	set	messageid: <1307389861.74.0.374212174713.issue12232@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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