Is anyone working on this? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:27:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Hmm, it seems to depend on the hardware you're using. I just tried it > > on four different machines: > > <no consistancy whatsoever> > > > > A simple C program shows the same. Why isn't it being caught on > > > windows? > > > > That still looks like a failure to trap something we should trap. > > I'd suggest fixing that first, because if we fix int4div first, > > we won't have a simple test case for it. > > Well, we should at least add a regression test for this divide thing > since obviously people assumed it was working when it wasn't. > > However, would it be possible to add a test_sigfpe() to regress.c that > simply tries to do 1/0. There is appears to be no regression test that > generates a floating-point exception which appears to be a serious > omission. There are any number of ways to force one: ln(0) for example > (hmm, looks like we protect against that). I suppose one floating point > and one integer example should suffice. > > Are there any other signals we should be watching for? > > Have a nice day, > -- > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them. -- End of PGP section, PGP failed! -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
