Re: Regression (semi)fix for netbsd-mac68k - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Rémi Zara
Subject Re: Regression (semi)fix for netbsd-mac68k
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Msg-id 40CAD770-54B3-11D9-9DA3-003065B81B34@mac.com
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In response to Re: Regression (semi)fix for netbsd-mac68k  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Le 23 déc. 04, à 04:52, Tom Lane a écrit :

> Rémi Zara <remi_zara@mac.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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