Re: Libm core dump with SIGILL

[Greg Stark <stark%mit.edu@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Mouse <mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost> wrote:
> As for the original issue, it looks to me as though it is either pilot
> error (if the package is documented as requiring IEEE floats), a bug in
> the documentation (if it's supposed to require IEEE floats but isn't
> documented that way), or a bug in the tests (if it's not supposed to
> require IEEE floats).


Postgres doesn't in theory require IEEE floats, though I think every
other platform has them at this point so users might be surprised.

It just seems like we assumed any failures would manifest with an FPE,
not some other signal.

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greg