James Hilliard <james.hillia...@gmail.com> writes: > Fixes: > gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement > -Werror=vla -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security > -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -Wno-unused-command-line-argument -O2 > -I../../../../src/include -isysroot > /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX11.1.sdk > -c -o fd.o fd.c > fd.c:3661:10: warning: 'pwritev' is only available on macOS 11.0 or newer > [-Wunguarded-availability-new]
We already dealt with that by not selecting an SDK newer than the underlying OS (see 4823621db). I do not believe that your proposal is more reliable than that approach, and it's surely uglier. Are we really going to abandon Autoconf's built-in checking method every time Apple adds an API they should have had ten years ago? If so, you forgot preadv ... regards, tom lane