On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> it looks like gcc bug - gcc 4.5.1 20100924 (Red Hat 4.5.1) It was
>> configured just with --enable-debug and --enable-cassert
>
> Is this x86? I can't reproduce it on x86_64.
reading all the comments in the gcc bug report, this is because x86
targets the x87 fpu by default which is where the bug is -- it's a
hardware problem. x86_64 targets sse which has stricter standards for
rounding. most x86 processors support sse -- is there a reason why we
don't target sse?
merlin
