Re: Regression testing failure: float8...

> > Actually, now that I think about it, since BSD hasn't changed it's
> > handling of FPU errors in over 12 months now (no longer sends
> > SIGFPE on FPU errors), and it used to pass less than a month ago,
> > it looks like this is a "perk" of a recent gcc upgrade to 3.2.2.
> 
> I'd expect it to be a libc issue, not a compiler nor kernel thing.
> What you've got is that strtod() is now returning ERANGE for an
> underflowed input value, whereas before it did not.  It's hard to
> believe that this would depend on which compiler you compiled
> Postgres with.  (Maybe it could depend on which compiler you
> compiled libc with, though?)

Hrm, yeah.  I've updated my system and I can't reproduce this.  As
best as I can guess, in the last month I updated gcc and the code that
gcc produced didn't quite interact with libc (from prior version of
gcc) correctly.  ::shrug:: Not really sure, but, it's not really that
important since only random() is failing. -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden

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