Re: Horology test failure while compiling PostgreSQL 8.3.3 on Solaris 10 x64

["F. Jovan Jester" <jesterj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > CFLAGS="-R/opt/usr/local/amd64/lib -xmodel=medium - 
> > xtarget=generic64 -fast
> > -xarch=amd64"
>
> What does "-fast" do?  If it involves any reinterpretation of IEEE  
> float
> arithmetic accuracy requirements, drop it.

The -fast option using sun studio cc expands to include the flag - 
fsimple=2 which does affect floating point calculations. If you remove  
the -fast flag it should pass the tests.

any special reason why you are using xtarget=generic64 instead of  
native64?

-jovan