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Author	josharian
Recipients	josharian, ronaldoussoren
Date	2011-09-29.17:27:43
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When Python is compiled on OS X with llvm, the decimal module behaves erratically (simple calculations are wrong, most doctests fail). This was originally reported here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7590137/dividing-decimals-yields-invalid-results-in-python-2-5-to-2-7 and the compiler dependency was tracked down here: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/31444 Although it looks like MacPorts is going to force use of gcc, it'd still be better for Python to behave correctly when compiled with llvm. Possibly related to http://bugs.python.org/issue11149?

When Python is compiled on OS X with llvm, the decimal module behaves erratically (simple calculations are wrong, most doctests fail). This was originally reported here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7590137/dividing-decimals-yields-invalid-results-in-python-2-5-to-2-7

and the compiler dependency was tracked down here:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/31444

Although it looks like MacPorts is going to force use of gcc, it'd still be better for Python to behave correctly when compiled with llvm.

Possibly related to http://bugs.python.org/issue11149?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-09-29 17:27:44	josharian	set	recipients: + josharian, ronaldoussoren
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2011-09-29 17:27:43	josharian	create