Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On Monday, June 25, 2012 05:15:43 PM Tom Lane wrote: >> So you propose to define any compiler that strictly implements C99 as >> not sensible and not one that will be able to compile Postgres?
> I propose to treat any compiler which has no way to get to equivalent > behaviour as not sensible. Yes. Well, my response is "no". I could see saying that we require (some) C99 features at this point, but not features that are in no standard, no matter how popular gcc might be. > I don't think there really are many of those > around. As you pointed out there is only one compiler in the buildfarm with > problems This just means we don't have a wide enough collection of non-mainstream machines in the buildfarm. Deciding to break any platform with a non-gcc-equivalent compiler isn't going to improve that. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers