Sergey B Kirpichev 1c55b9163b
[3.14] gh-102431: Clarify constraints on operands of Decimal logical operations (GH-102836) (#140105)
* [3.14] gh-102431: Clarify constraints on operands of Decimal logical operations (GH-102836)

Sync C/Python implementation of the decimal: logical_ops for contexts.
(cherry picked from commit 6ecf77dbdec7838e9ce2298cb8d16e8c2250da81)

Co-authored-by: Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpichev@gmail.com>
2025-10-14 15:44:30 +02:00
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About
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_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
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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).