Re: apparent problem on linux/s390

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Nicolai Tufar <ntufar(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: apparent problem on linux/s390
Date: 2004-12-07 18:51:36
Message-ID: 16984.1102445496@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Nicolai Tufar <ntufar(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Hercules is a tested and proved emulator but I have a vague doubt
> that it's IEEE FPU emulation may be slightly different from the
> real iron's one.

FWIW, I get clean regression test passes on a real z900 at Red Hat,
in both s390 and s390x (32- and 64-bit) modes. I'm not sure what that
means --- it could be that Red Hat Linux doesn't use the hardware
floating point, or it could be that their version of glibc knows how to
deal with corner cases like NaNs on this hardware. Or it could be that
Hercules is broken.

regards, tom lane

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Kenneth Marshall 2004-12-07 19:13:27 Re: Call for port reports
Previous Message Tom Lane 2004-12-07 18:32:13 Re: branch for 8.0?