Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In Plauger's _The Standard C Library_ (1992) on p 335 is an excerpt > from the standard (I think). At the end of a section entitled > "7.10.1.4 The strtod function" is the following: "If the correct > value would cause underflow, zero is returned and the value of the > macro ERANGE is stored in errno."
The Single Unix Spec also makes it clear that ERANGE on underflow is not optional: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strtod.html I think there is no question that OpenBSD is broken. The question for us is whether we should expend effort to work around that. We already have a "small-is-zero" workaround comparison file in the main regression tests, so my thought is that ecpg should probably do likewise ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
