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John Belmonte
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Immediate merits:
* eliminate complex workarounds for 'z' format support
(NOTE: mpdecimal recently added 'z' support, so this becomes
efficient in the long term.)
* fix 'z' format memory leak
* fix 'z' format applied to 'F'
* fix missing '#' format support
Suggested and prototyped by Stefan Krah.
Fixes gh-114563, gh-91060
(cherry picked from commit 72340d15cd)
Co-authored-by: John Belmonte <john@neggie.net>
Co-authored-by: Stefan Krah <skrah@bytereef.org>
About ===== _decimal.c is a wrapper for the libmpdec library. libmpdec is a fast C library for correctly-rounded arbitrary precision decimal floating point arithmetic. It is a complete implementation of Mike Cowlishaw/IBM's General Decimal Arithmetic Specification. Build process for the module ============================ As usual, the build process for _decimal.so is driven by setup.py in the top level directory. setup.py autodetects the following build configurations: 1) x64 - 64-bit Python, x86_64 processor (AMD, Intel) 2) uint128 - 64-bit Python, compiler provides __uint128_t (gcc) 3) ansi64 - 64-bit Python, ANSI C 4) ppro - 32-bit Python, x86 CPU, PentiumPro or later 5) ansi32 - 32-bit Python, ANSI C 6) ansi-legacy - 32-bit Python, compiler without uint64_t 7) universal - Mac OS only (multi-arch) It is possible to override autodetection by exporting: PYTHON_DECIMAL_WITH_MACHINE=value, where value is one of the above options. NOTE ==== decimal.so is not built from a static libmpdec.a since doing so led to failures on AIX (user report) and Windows (mixing static and dynamic CRTs causes locale problems and more).