Re: apparent problem on linux/s390 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Horak Daniel
Subject Re: apparent problem on linux/s390
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Msg-id 66EFFC1A2B0A424E87D68EC10B1F458D040911@EXCH2.plzen-city.cz
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In response to apparent problem on linux/s390  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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> > Meanwhile, if anyone knows of real big iron that could join
> the buildfarm
> > that would also be good.
>
> I can't put it in the buildfarm ;-) but I have access to real s390
> hardware inside Red Hat.  I'll try to run a test build and see whether
> the regression tests pass.
>
> I would expect that s390 floating point is not even remotely
> IEEE-compliant; they'd have stuck with the S/360 behavior
> which predates
> the IEEE spec by probably 20 years.  Whether it's worth generating
> variant regression files for this arch, I don't know.

I think that IEEE float numbers are available on S390 G5 and newer
machines.

    Dan


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