>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
Tom> The reason that it's reappeared is the refactoring we've done Tom> recently around snprintf: float4out is now taking its float4 Tom> argument and widening it to double to pass to strtod, which is Tom> where the checks for Inf/NaN happen. [...] Tom> to float4out, but ick. I was willing to do cb3e9e40b because it Tom> didn't really make the code any uglier, but this would. And I bet Tom> the issue is going to cause problems somewhere for Andrew's Ryu Tom> patch, too. Actually I'd expect the reverse - Ryu never widens a float4 to float8, it does everything in integers after extracting the bits from the value; so it should be immune to this issue. -- Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)
