Re: apparent problem on linux/s390

From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: <ntufar(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: apparent problem on linux/s390
Date: 2004-12-07 12:38:25
Message-ID: 2065.24.211.141.25.1102423105.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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Nicolai Tufar said:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:15:23 -0500, Andrew Dunstan
> <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>> problems apparently with NaNs, infinities and negative zeros.
>
> I am the owner of this baby. It is not an actual mainframe,
> it is Hercules emulator running on AthlonXP 2500+ producing
> 20-25 MIPS of pure mainframe horsepower! On bootup Linux
> reports 130 BogoMIPS and OS/390 reports 40 MIPS.
...
>
> Hercules is a tested and proved emulator but I have a vague doubt
> that it's IEEE FPU emulation may be slightly different from the
> real iron's one.

Maybe we should mark the buildfarm member as "s390 emulator" ?

Meanwhile, if anyone knows of real big iron that could join the buildfarm
that would also be good.

cheers

andrew

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