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Re: Strange interval arithmetic

  • From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
  • To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
  • Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Strange interval arithmetic
  • Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:15:33 -0700
  • Message-id: <20051130231533(dot)GA27780(at)winnie(dot)fuhr(dot)org>
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:00:07PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> LONG_MIN/LONG_MAX might be the actual values provided, too, mightn't 
> they? checking for ERANGE seems like the only viable test.

Errno needs to be checked in any case for just that reason; the
question was whether checking *only* errno is sufficient to detect
an error.  According to the standard it is.

-- 
Michael Fuhr
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