| From: | Horak Daniel <horak(at)sitmp(dot)cz> |
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| To: | <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: apparent problem on linux/s390 |
| Date: | 2004-12-07 16:22:49 |
| Message-ID: | 66EFFC1A2B0A424E87D68EC10B1F458D040911@EXCH2.plzen-city.cz |
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> > Meanwhile, if anyone knows of real big iron that could join
> the buildfarm
> > that would also be good.
>
> I can't put it in the buildfarm ;-) but I have access to real s390
> hardware inside Red Hat. I'll try to run a test build and see whether
> the regression tests pass.
>
> I would expect that s390 floating point is not even remotely
> IEEE-compliant; they'd have stuck with the S/360 behavior
> which predates
> the IEEE spec by probably 20 years. Whether it's worth generating
> variant regression files for this arch, I don't know.
I think that IEEE float numbers are available on S390 G5 and newer
machines.
Dan
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