Regression failure with PostgreSQL 8beta1 and Intel Itanium 2 C compiler

Dear All,
I built PG 8.0 beta1 on an Itanium 2 platform using the Intel compilers
version 8, and got one real difference in the regression tests that affected
int2, int4, union, and numerology. Here's the key difference:

horta postgres 177 > diff -c int4.out ../expected/
*** int4.out Tue Aug 10 18:41:48 2004
--- ../expected/int4.out Wed Mar 10 21:11:13 2004
***************
*** 22,27 ****
--- 22,28 ----
INSERT INTO INT4_TBL(f1) VALUES (' asdf ');
ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: " asdf "
INSERT INTO INT4_TBL(f1) VALUES ('- 1234');
+ ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "- 1234"
INSERT INTO INT4_TBL(f1) VALUES ('123 5');
ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "123 5"
INSERT INTO INT4_TBL(f1) VALUES ('');

PG 8.0 beta1 is accepting "- 1234" as a valid integer. Further investigation
reveals that this is a peculiarity of the Intel compilers. The following
program,

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

main() {
char st[] = "- 1234";
int l;
char *endp;

l = strtol(st, &endp, 10);
printf("l = %d st = %lx endp = %lx\n", l, st, endp);
}

using the Intel compiler provided libraries prints

l = -1234 st = 60000fffffffb720 endp = 60000fffffffb726

whereas gcc and glibc yields

l = 0 st = 60000fffffffb710 endp = 60000fffffffb710

Boo hiss...

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