Re: [HACKERS] problem compiling with egcs 1.1.1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] problem compiling with egcs 1.1.1
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Msg-id 10881.913220115@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] problem compiling with egcs 1.1.1  ("Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
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"Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> What optimization level do you use? Do you find that the newer version
> of egcs does a good job with floating point rounding, or are the
> regression tests filled with ".999999" results? I much preferred the
> gcc-2.7.x behavior wrt graceful rounding, and hope that at some point
> egcs will also have it...

Are you sure you are right to blame the compiler?  I should think this
would be a C library issue, not the compiler's fault...
        regards, tom lane


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