On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:34:24AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've replied on this topic a couple of times in the "SOLARIS 9 > > ULTRASPARC BUILD" thread, but perhaps my messages aren't getting > > through. On Solaris, when strtod() parses "infinity" or its > > equivalent, it sets endptr one character beyond where it should. > > This is apparently a longstanding bug that's allegedly been fixed > > in Solaris 10: > > http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=4118e611%241_3%40omega.dimensional.com > > Ah, thanks for the link. I had just found out about that bug myself, > but this is more authoritative documentation.
It's not on groups.google.com yet, but another followup says that Bug 4751182 is "strtod() with inf or infinity input sets endptr incorrectly". -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
