At 1:30 AM -0500 11/1/02, Tom Lane wrote:
>I said:
>> Peter Bierman <bierman@apple.com> writes:
>>> Perhaps the change from gcc2.x to 3.x changed floats a bit?
>
>> Could be. We had previous reports of the same diff on OSX 10.2 with
>> a G4 processor, so I was wondering if it was hardware or software
>> differences (geometry-powerpc-darwin.out matches exactly on my G3
>> laptop running OSX 10.1). I have a 10.2 CD and am planning to update
>> sometime soon to verify this by experiment.
>
>I have done the update and now I get the "...40473" output on the same
>hardware that useta pass. So it's clearly a software-version issue.
>
>Is it worth carrying two expected files for OS X 10.1 and 10.2? I'm
>inclined to think not, and am leaning towards updating the expected
>file. Comments?
I'm 90% certain that the difference is caused by GCC 2.95 vs 3.1.
(10.0 & 10.1 vs 10.2)
If you can easily pick the right file based which GCC compiled it, that'd be ideal.
-pmb