AW: AW: AW: Re: RELEASE STOPPER? nonportable int64 cons tant s in pg_crc.c

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: AW: AW: AW: Re: RELEASE STOPPER? nonportable int64 cons tant s in pg_crc.c
Date: 2001-03-26 10:44:56
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA68796336825C@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> Mainly it's a schedule-driven thing. I don't want to take any risk that
> a last-minute patch to work around AIX's broken compiler will break any
> other platforms. If we had found this problem before beta cycle
> started, I would be more willing to say "let's try it and find out
> whether it works everywhere".
>
> Yeah, it's paranoia, but considering that the whole thing is an exercise
> in covering up a "shouldn't happen" compiler bug, I think paranoia is
> not so unreasonable.

Thank you for going to all that trouble !! The fix, as it is in RC1 works great
on AIX with both xlc and gcc.

Andreas

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