Re: Regression failure for floats

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> I am seeing the following regression failure for current CVS. On my OS,
> BSD/OS 4.3, it seems once you hit Infinity, you can't negate it.
> /usr/include/math.h has:
> /* Generate an overflow to create +Inf; the multiply shuts up gcc 1 */
> #define HUGE_VAL (1e250*1e250) /* IEEE: positive infinity */
> and our float4in code has:
> else if (strcasecmp(num, "-Infinity") == 0)
> val = -HUGE_VAL;
> Seems that doesn't work for me.

No, the bug is that Neil assumed isinf() would tell him the sign of an
infinity. I believe he's about to commit a patch for this and some
other bogosities.

regards, tom lane