Re: RPM building (was regression on RedHat)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-03-22T16:22:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Thomas Lockhart writes: > ?? I think we agree. It happens to be the case that slightly incorrect > results are wrong results, and that full IEEE math conformance gives > exactly correct results. For the case of date/time, the "slightly wrong" > results round up to 60.0 seconds for times on an even minute boundary, > which is just plain wrong. Well, you're going to have to ask a numerical analyst about this. If you take that stance then -ffast-math is always wrong, no matter what the combination of other switches. The "wrong" results might be harder to reproduce without any optimization going on, but they could still happen. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/