Re: [HACKERS] int8 type -- call for porting results!

Has this been fixed?

> I just started compiling the 6.4 snapshot from this weekend on our AIX 4.1.4
> system. I am running into problems surrounding snprintf().
>
> 1. Do I need to set something in Makefile.global to activate the
> compilation of snprintf()
>
> 2. snprintf() does not compile clean. It has several explicate referenced
> to FILE data elements which are not on our FILE structure. The error
> messages follow:
>
> 81 | f._flags = __SWR | __SSTR;
> ........a..........b.......c......
> a - 1506-022 (S) "_flags" is not a member of "struct {...}".
> b - 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier __SWR.
> c - 1506-045 (S) Undeclared identifier __SSTR.
> 82 | f._bf._base = f._p = (unsigned char *)str;
> ........a.............b...........................
> a - 1506-022 (S) "_bf" is not a member of "struct {...}".
> b - 1506-022 (S) "_p" is not a member of "struct {...}".
> 83 | f._bf._size = f._w = n;
> ........a.............b........
> a - 1506-022 (S) "_bf" is not a member of "struct {...}".
> b - 1506-022 (S) "_w" is not a member of "struct {...}".
> 86 | *f._p = '\0';
> .................a...........
> a - 1506-022 (S) "_p" is not a member of "struct {...}".
> gmake: *** [snprintf.o] Error 1
>
> This section does not look to portable. I'm thinking that you could use a
> simple sprintf() in int8out() and made the buffer sufficiently big enough
> that it could not overflow. I will gladly submit a patch.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
>
> > Hi. A month or two ago I put an int8 data type into Postgres. Aside from
> > being useful on its own, it could also form the basis for other types
> > needing extended range, such as money, decimal, and numeric types (the
> > last two are SQL92 types).
> >
> > Anyway, I implemented it on a gcc/x86/Linux machine, and we will need to
> > ensure that it works on other platforms. If you are doing any work at
> > all with a post-v6.3.2 source tree on another platform/OS combination,
> > can you please look at the results of the int8 regression test, or run
> > that test on your own, and let me know if it worked? If it didn't work,
> > then we should either put it on the list of things to do or make it work
> > in time for v6.4. But at the moment I don't know either way.
> >
> > btw, there is a chance that the Alpha port will work since I coded for
> > it and I used to work on Alpha machines...
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > - Tom
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