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Author mirabilos
Recipients Arfrever, BreamoreBoy, benjamin.peterson, georg.brandl, larry, loewis, mark.dickinson, mirabilos, pitrou, schwab, skrah, tim.peters
Date 2014-04-03.21:35:23
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Veto on m68k-float-prec.patch for Linux/m68k for now.

Reasoning is same as in #18062 (thanks skrah for linking it):

Enabling this *will* break Python on Linux/m68k on the most
widespread emulator in all released versions of that emulator
(ARAnyM) because the emulator does not handle reducing precision
correctly.

The same applies to all other m68k OSes running in ARAnyM
(FreeMiNT comes to mind, I believe it could run Python).

I think this could be applied when a released version of
ARAnyM that works correctly even with this patch is in,
say, Debian oldstable and RHEL, or something like that.

The problem here is that this *will* create a run-time issue.
(I had prepared a similar patch, but decided to fix the old
dtoa code instead due to the emulator issue.)
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2014-04-03 21:35:24mirabilossetrecipients: + mirabilos, tim.peters, loewis, georg.brandl, mark.dickinson, pitrou, larry, benjamin.peterson, Arfrever, skrah, BreamoreBoy, schwab
2014-04-03 21:35:23mirabilossetmessageid: <1396560923.99.0.0922885779823.issue20904@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2014-04-03 21:35:23mirabiloslinkissue20904 messages
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