Re: OpenBSD/Sparc status - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: OpenBSD/Sparc status
Date
Msg-id 9013.1101061379@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: OpenBSD/Sparc status  ("Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> I guess my concern is that on Sparc64/OpenBSD-3.6* at least, this bug is
> exposed by the seg tests but might well occur elsewhere and bite us in
> various unpleasant ways.

The experimentation I did to develop the test case suggested that the
problem only occurs when the result of a function returning float is
stored directly into a union member.  That's a sufficiently weird case
that I'm reasonably confident it doesn't occur elsewhere in the backend.
It might be worth Stefan's time to vary the test case a bit (eg try
double instead of float, struct instead of union, etc) and see just how
general the bug is.
        regards, tom lane


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