converting float to int issue

[Grant Edwards]

In article <PXxta.502509$Zo.109454 at sccrnsc03>, Alex wrote:
> Converting a float to an int produces strange results.  Is this just a bug
> or am I missing something?  I tried to search the bug database, but was
> unsucsessful.
> 
> Converting a float to a long works as I would expect.
> 
> Python 2.2.2 (#1, Apr 16 2003, 22:00:16)
> [GCC 3.2.1 20021207 (Gentoo Linux 3.2.1-20021207)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> int(1.0)
> 0
>>>> int(3.0)
> 0
>>>> int(3.14)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> OverflowError: float too large to convert

Too weird.

Works fine here:

  $ python2
  Python 2.2.2 (#1, Jan 30 2003, 21:26:22) 
  [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-112)] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
  information.
  >>> int(1.0)
  1
  >>> int(3.0)
  3
  >>> int(3.14)
  3
  >>> 
  
I notice python was built with different versions of gcc...
  
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