Re: [HACKERS] "24" < INT_MIN returns TRUE ???

> Hi,
>
> did anyone compile latest CVS with v1.31
> utils/adt/numutils.c?
>
> Marc activated some range checks in pg_atoi() and now I have
> a very interesting behaviour on a Linux box running gcc 2.8.1
> glibc-2.
>
> Inside of pg_atoi(), the value is read into a long. Comparing
> a small positive long like 24 against INT_MIN returns TRUE -
> dunno how. Putting INT_MIN into another long variable and
> comparing the two returns the expected FALSE - so what's
> going on here? long, int32 and int have all 4 bytes here.

I just reversed out the patch. It was causing initdb to fail!

I don't understand why it fails either, but have sent the report back to
the patch author.

I would love to hear the answer on this one.

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