On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 at 10:36, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > David Rowley <dgrowle...@gmail.com> writes: > > Looking at [1], it seems even ancient versions of gcc and clang > > rewrite the strstr() into a strchr() call when the search term is a > > single char string. So it might not be worth doing to any trouble > > here. > > I was wondering if that might be true. However, your godbolt results > show that MSVC doesn't do this optimization, and the usage in > pgmkdirp.c is inside "#ifdef WIN32", so maybe it's worth fixing there.
Yeah, I noticed MSVC not doing the rewrite. I didn't notice the mentioned use case was within an #ifdef WIN32. I'm currently thinking we should just fix the pgmkdirp.c instance and call it good. David