Issue #7575: An overflow test for math.expm1 was failing on OS X 10.4/Intel,

due to a defect in the platform's implementation of expm1.  Since the issue
is of low severity, and appears to be fixed in OS X 10.5 and 10.6, it doesn't
seem worth working around, so I'm just weakening the relevant test so that
it passes on 10.4.

diff --git a/Lib/test/math_testcases.txt b/Lib/test/math_testcases.txt
index bd8813eaf80fd090329c69ddae1bdd3cf9954c35..21730df720911f1b7139ad59f9591415052bdac2 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/math_testcases.txt
+++ b/Lib/test/math_testcases.txt
@@ -396,8 +396,14 @@ expm10215 expm1 -1.79e308 -> -1.0
 -- extreme positive values
 expm10300 expm1 300 -> 1.9424263952412558e+130
 expm10301 expm1 700 -> 1.0142320547350045e+304
-expm10302 expm1 709.78271289328393 -> 1.7976931346824240e+308
+-- the next test (expm10302) is disabled because it causes failure on
+-- OS X 10.4/Intel: apparently all values over 709.78 produce an
+-- overflow on that platform.  See issue #7575.
+-- expm10302 expm1 709.78271289328393 -> 1.7976931346824240e+308
 expm10303 expm1 709.78271289348402 -> inf overflow
 expm10304 expm1 1000 -> inf overflow
 expm10305 expm1 1e50 -> inf overflow
 expm10306 expm1 1.79e308 -> inf overflow
+
+-- weaker version of expm10302
+expm10307 expm1 709.5 -> 1.3549863193146328e+308