Re: horo(r)logy test fail on solaris (again and

Tom,

On 9/26/06 9:15 AM, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> ! | @ 6 years | @ 5 years 12 mons 5 days 6 hours
>
>> Doesn't this look odd regardless of what bad results come back from the
>> FP library?
>
> It looks exactly like the sort of platform-dependent rounding issue that
> Bruce and Michael Glaesemann spent a lot of time on recently. It might
> be interesting to see if CVS HEAD works any better under these
> conditions ... but if it doesn't, that doesn't mean I'll be interested
> in fixing it. Getting the float datetime code to work is hard enough
> without having a compiler that thinks it can take shortcuts.

How about fixing the compilation so that the routines in adt that are
sensitive to FP optimizations are isolated from aggressive optimization?

- Luke