[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #503: ST_Area on small polygons in EPSG:31467 gives incorrect results depending on 32-/64-system-architecture

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

PostGIS wrote:

>  I only wanted to remark that not only small polygons are affected by this
>  phenomenon - all areas I calculated with st_area() are multiples of
>  0.001953125 (what's not as it should be as appears to me).

(Sorry - accidentally replied to the wrong thread)

If it's some kind of memory clobbering bug, then perhaps changing endian 
  will make a difference. Has anyone tried this on a large endian 
architecture?


ATB,

Mark.

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