Is anyone working on this?
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:27:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Hmm, it seems to depend on the hardware you're using. I just tried it
> > on four different machines:
>
> <no consistancy whatsoever>
>
> > > A simple C program shows the same. Why isn't it being caught on
> > > windows?
> >
> > That still looks like a failure to trap something we should trap.
> > I'd suggest fixing that first, because if we fix int4div first,
> > we won't have a simple test case for it.
>
> Well, we should at least add a regression test for this divide thing
> since obviously people assumed it was working when it wasn't.
>
> However, would it be possible to add a test_sigfpe() to regress.c that
> simply tries to do 1/0. There is appears to be no regression test that
> generates a floating-point exception which appears to be a serious
> omission. There are any number of ways to force one: ln(0) for example
> (hmm, looks like we protect against that). I suppose one floating point
> and one integer example should suffice.
>
> Are there any other signals we should be watching for?
>
> Have a nice day,
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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