Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> On 08/31/2016 08:27 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> We had a bunch of similar problems in the recent work on exact degree trig
>> functions, and eventually found that storing values into volatile float8
>> variables was the most reliable way to force rounding to the expected
>> storage width. I propose to replace the above hack with declaring
>> newelemorder as volatile, and see if that makes things better.
> Sounds reasonable. None of this is supposed to be necessary, we're just
> working around broken compilers, so whatever works.
> I'll prepare a patch for that tomorrow, unless you're on it already.
On it already.
regards, tom lane
