| From: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: floating point representation |
| Date: | 2001-02-20 04:19:10 |
| Message-ID: | 3A91F03E.1C20C5FC@alumni.caltech.edu |
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> Hmm, on looking at the code, this might mean we need some configure
> pushups to extract FLT_DIG and DBL_DIG and put those into the default
> strings. Do we support any platforms where these are not 6 & 15?
In principle, yes. VAX does not use IEEE math (by default anyway) and
has less range and more precision. Most machines nowadays use the IEEE
definitions, but having at least one counterexample will help keep us
honest ;)
- Thomas
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