[issue20904] HAVE_PY_SET_53BIT_PRECISION for m68k

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson added the comment:

> under some conditions involving denormalized numbers the result may lose a bit of precision

That sounds like a non-issue for this application: the dtoa.c computations are careful to avoid subnormals in intermediate computations.

If mirabilos has withdrawn his objection, is there anything blocking applying this for 3.5?

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