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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2013-08-03 12:39:54 -0400 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2013-08-03 12:40:40 -0400 |
commit | cbb565f7c397fa8a74b214e1765ed9db66c3d8a4 (patch) | |
tree | d684004dbd3de741720202614188f2ff87d191a3 /src/tutorial/funcs_new.c | |
parent | 08767878ca865a021763c8650b57df65b40094cd (diff) |
Make sure float4in/float8in accept all standard spellings of "infinity".
The C99 and POSIX standards require strtod() to accept all these spellings
(case-insensitively): "inf", "+inf", "-inf", "infinity", "+infinity",
"-infinity". However, pre-C99 systems might accept only some or none of
these, and apparently Windows still doesn't accept "inf". To avoid
surprising cross-platform behavioral differences, manually check for each
of these spellings if strtod() fails. We were previously handling just
"infinity" and "-infinity" that way, but since C99 is most of the world
now, it seems likely that applications are expecting all these spellings
to work.
Per bug #8355 from Basil Peace. It turns out this fix won't actually
resolve his problem, because Python isn't being this careful; but that
doesn't mean we shouldn't be.
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