pack_float, pack_double, save_float: All the routines for creating
IEEE-format packed representations of floats and doubles simply ignored
that rounding can (in rare cases) propagate out of a long string of
1 bits. At worst, the end-off carry can (by mistake) interfere with
the exponent value, and then unpacking yields a result wrong by a factor
of 2. In less severe cases, it can end up losing more low-order bits
than intended, or fail to catch overflow *caused* by rounding.
Bugfix candidate, but I already backported this to 2.2.
In 2.3, this code remains in severe need of refactoring.
reasons: importing module can fail, or the attribute lookup
module.name can fail. We were giving the same error msg for
both cases, making it needlessly hard to guess what went wrong.
These cases give different error msgs now.
the optional proto 2 slot state.
pickle.py, load_build(): CAUTION: Noted that cPickle's
load_build and pickle's load_build really don't do the same
things with the state, and didn't before this patch either.
cPickle never tries to do .update(), and has no backoff if
instance.__dict__ can't be retrieved. There are no tests
that can tell the difference, and part of what cPickle's
load_build() did looked accidental to me, so I don't know
what the true intent is here.
pickletester.py, test_pickle.py: Got rid of the hack for
exempting cPickle from running some of the proto 2 tests.
dictobject.c, PyDict_Next(): documented intended use.
exercised by the test suite before cPickle knows how to create NEWOBJ
too. For now, it was just tried once by hand (via loading a NEWOBJ
pickle created by pickle.py).
guarantee to keep valid pointers in its slots.
tests: Moved ExtensionSaver from test_copy_reg into pickletester, and
use it both places. Once extension codes get assigned, it won't be
safe to overwrite them willy nilly in test suites, and ExtensionSaver
does a thorough job of undoing any possible damage.
Beefed up the EXT[124] tests a bit, to check the smallest and largest
codes in each opcode's range too.
this clarifies that they are part of an internal API (albeit shared
between pickle.py, copy_reg.py and cPickle.c).
I'd like to do the same for copy_reg.dispatch_table, but worry that it
might be used by existing code. This risk doesn't exist for the
extension registry.
because it seems more consistent with the rest of the code.
cPickle_PyMapping_HasKey(): This extern function isn't used anywhere in
Python or Zope, so got rid of it.
readability.
load_bool(): Now that I know the intended difference between _PUSH and
_APPEND, used the right one.
Pdata_grow(): Squashed out a redundant overflow test.
a function, then
p->f(arg1, arg2, ...)
is semantically the same as
(*p->f)(arg1, arg2, ...)
Changed all instances of the latter into the former. Given how often
the code embeds this kind of expression in an if test, the unnecessary
parens and dereferening operator were a real drag on readability.
loops. Renamed DATA and BINDATA to DATA0 and DATA1. Included
disassemblies, but noted why we can't test them. Added XXX comment to
cPickle about a mysterious comment, where pickle and cPickle diverge
in how they number PUT indices.
Assorted code cleanups; e.g., sizeof(char) is 1 by definition, so there's
no need to do things like multiply by sizeof(char) in hairy malloc
arguments. Fixed an undetected-overflow bug in readline_file().
longobject.c: Fixed a really stupid bug in the new _PyLong_NumBits.
pickle.py: Fixed stupid bug in save_long(): When proto is 2, it
wrote LONG1 or LONG4, but forgot to return then -- it went on to
append the proto 1 LONG opcode too.
Fixed equally stupid cancelling bugs in load_long1() and
load_long4(): they *returned* the unpickled long instead of pushing
it on the stack. The return values were ignored. Tests passed
before only because save_long() pickled the long twice.
Fixed bugs in encode_long().
Noted that decode_long() is quadratic-time despite our hopes,
because long(string, 16) is still quadratic-time in len(string).
It's hex() that's linear-time. I don't know a way to make decode_long()
linear-time in Python, short of maybe transforming the 256's-complement
bytes into marshal's funky internal format, and letting marshal decode
that. It would be more valuable to make long(string, 16) linear time.
pickletester.py: Added a global "protocols" vector so tests can try
all the protocols in a sane way. Changed test_ints() and test_unicode()
to do so. Added a new test_long(), but the tail end of it is disabled
because it "takes forever" under pickle.py (but runs very quickly under
cPickle: cPickle proto 2 for longs is linear-time).
The attached patch enables shared extension
modules to build cleanly under Cygwin without
moving the static initialization of certain function
pointers (i.e., ones exported from the Python
DLL core) to a module initialization function.
Additionally, this patch fixes the modules that
have been changed in the past to accommodate
Cygwin.
