[Python-Dev] Compiler warnings (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 23:42:36 CET 2006

[Thomas]

Done,

Thanks!

although it was nowhere near obvious to me that -1 would be a sane sentinel value ;) Not that I don't believe you, but it took some actual reading of PyLongAsScaledDouble to confirm it.

Nope, the thing to do was to read the docs for _PyLong_AsScaledDouble, which explicitly promise e >= 0. That's what I did :-) "The docs" are in longobject.h. You can tell which functions I wrote, BTW, because they're the ones with comments in the header file documenting what they do. It's an ongoing mystery to me why nobody else found that to be a practice worth emulating ;-)/:-(

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