From b01d9f29a378b977efabf76913b717897de717b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:36:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-46917: Require IEEE 754 to build Python

Building Python now requires support of IEEE 754 floating point
numbers.
---
 Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst                                          | 3 +++
 .../NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-03-10-09-37-05.bpo-46917.fry4aK.rst | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-03-10-09-37-05.bpo-46917.fry4aK.rst

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
index 4514de9c07c9e1..0e3ccb62cbf39f 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
@@ -645,6 +645,9 @@ Build Changes
 * Building Python now requires a C11 compiler without optional C11 features.
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`46656`.)
 
+* Building Python now requires support of IEEE 754 floating point numbers.
+  (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`46917`.)
+
 * CPython can now be built with the ThinLTO option via ``--with-lto=thin``.
   (Contributed by Dong-hee Na and Brett Holman in :issue:`44340`.)
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-03-10-09-37-05.bpo-46917.fry4aK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-03-10-09-37-05.bpo-46917.fry4aK.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..fbb7891cae1a5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-03-10-09-37-05.bpo-46917.fry4aK.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Building Python now requires support of IEEE 754 floating point numbers.
+Patch by Victor Stinner.