| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Rémi Zara <remi_zara(at)mac(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Regression (semi)fix for netbsd-mac68k |
| Date: | 2004-12-23 03:52:31 |
| Message-ID: | 23642.1103773951@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Zara?= <remi_zara(at)mac(dot)com> writes:
> Le 23 d=E9c. 04, =E0 00:26, Tom Lane a =E9crit :
>> Looks reasonable to me --- why do you call it only a "semi" fix
> Because strtod really should underflow, so there seems to be a bug in
> NetBSD's strtod.
> So this is just accepting the bug, not correcting it :)
Sure, but it's not our job to fix strtod(). Feel free to file a bug
report with the NetBSD guys.
>> I wonder whether we oughtn't remove the i.86- part from the patterns
>> for the BSDen, ie, assume they will have this behavior on all hardware
>> not just Intel.
> From pgbuildfarm, it seems that openBSD sparc64 does not exhibit the
> problem (it's not part of resultmap, and passes the float8 test).
OK, never mind that then. Patch applied as-is.
regards, tom lane
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