Re: Geometry test on NetBSD (was Re: [HACKERS] RC1?)

Tom Lane writes:

> AFAIK, all modern hardware claims compliance to the IEEE floating-point
> arithmetic standard, so failure to print minus zero as minus zero is
> very likely to be a software issue not hardware.  That suggests strongly
> that the issue is netbsd version (specifically libc version) and not the
> hardware platform.

I could confirm my initial suspicion: it's a *printf() library issue.  The
FreeBSD CVS log tells the tale:

http://www.de.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdio/vfprintf.c

The next FreeBSD subrelease (4.8?) should have this fixed.  OpenBSD is not
fixed.  NetBSD and Darwin seem to have temporarily hidden their cvsweb in
shame, but I would assume it's the same issue.  Not sure what HP-UX is
doing about it.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net