Re: Regression (semi)fix for netbsd-mac68k

From: Rémi Zara <remi_zara(at)mac(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Regression (semi)fix for netbsd-mac68k
Date: 2004-12-23 07:21:24
Message-ID: 40CAD770-54B3-11D9-9DA3-003065B81B34@mac.com
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Le 23 déc. 04, à 04:52, Tom Lane a écrit :

> =?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.

Of course. Will do.

>>> 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.

Cool, thanks !

Regards,

Rémi Zara

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