From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andrew Francis <locust(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: libpq build problem with <io.h> on MS VC++ |
Date: | 2004-08-17 03:52:45 |
Message-ID: | 200408170352.i7H3qjo21315@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > OK, I have improved your comment and applied the patch. I mentioned the
> > problem is only on MS C, but we might as well include io.h there on all
> > Win32 platforms.
>
> I am actually fairly uncomfortable with this solution. We learned the
> hard way awhile back that we want to include postgres.h or siblings
> *before* any system header file, because the system header files may
> default to things we do not want otherwise. (Typical examples have to
> do with 32-bit vs 64-bit file offsets.) Perhaps it will be okay to
> violate that rule on this one specific file on this one specific
> platform, but I would not bet on it.
The only other option I can think of is to #undef those to defines,
include io.h, then re-include port.h? Is that better?
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