Re: [HACKERS] "24" < INT_MIN returns TRUE ???

> Hi,
> 
>     did     anyone     compile     latest    CVS    with    v1.31
>     utils/adt/numutils.c?
> 
>     Marc activated some range checks in pg_atoi() and now I  have
>     a very interesting behaviour on a Linux box running gcc 2.8.1
>     glibc-2.
> 
>     Inside of pg_atoi(), the value is read into a long. Comparing
>     a  small positive long like 24 against INT_MIN returns TRUE -
>     dunno how.  Putting INT_MIN into another  long  variable  and
>     comparing  the  two  returns  the  expected FALSE - so what's
>     going on here? long, int32 and int have all 4 bytes here.

I just reversed out the patch.  It was causing initdb to fail!

I don't understand why it fails either, but have sent the report back to
the patch author.

I would love to hear the answer on this one.

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