Attempt fixing floating point error

cesbit · Mar 8, 2017 · 17d96af · 17d96af
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
   * Fixed unpacking negative integers using Python2.
 
+  * Replaced adding double value with a memcpy.
+
 2017.03.08, Version 0.0.14 (BETA)
 
   * Fixed checking bytes size.

diff --git a/qpack/_qpack.c b/qpack/_qpack.c
@@ -917,7 +917,11 @@ static PyObject * unpackb(
 
     case 236:
         UNPACK_CHECK_SZ(sizeof(double))
-        obj = PyFloat_FromDouble((double) *((double *) *pt));
+        {
+            double d;
+            memcpy(&d, *pt, sizeof(double));
+            obj = PyFloat_FromDouble(d);
+        }
         (*pt) += sizeof(double);
         return obj;