Tom Lane writes:
> AFAIK, all modern hardware claims compliance to the IEEE floating-point
> arithmetic standard, so failure to print minus zero as minus zero is
> very likely to be a software issue not hardware. That suggests strongly
> that the issue is netbsd version (specifically libc version) and not the
> hardware platform.
I could confirm my initial suspicion: it's a *printf() library issue. The
FreeBSD CVS log tells the tale:
http://www.de.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdio/vfprintf.c
The next FreeBSD subrelease (4.8?) should have this fixed. OpenBSD is not
fixed. NetBSD and Darwin seem to have temporarily hidden their cvsweb in
shame, but I would assume it's the same issue. Not sure what HP-UX is
doing about it.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net