From: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 11:34:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: NEWS entry for the patch I checked in last week.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a0~1769
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=da85a90808abd6315fcb83b51f37ee611452b88e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

NEWS entry for the patch I checked in last week.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 77e059e69c95..0ea2b54e428f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats,
+  the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations
+  of floats now simply copy bytes around.
+
 - bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP
   278.