Re: Raising our compiler requirements for 9.6

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Raising our compiler requirements for 9.6
Date: 2015-08-07 15:41:18
Message-ID: 20150807154118.GA1825858@tornado.leadboat.com
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On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 03:20:00PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> Unless you have a better idea I'll now move the detection of that case
> to aix.h.

Nope, that seemed right to me.

> I rather liked being able to emit a warning about disabling inlines
> *once* during configuration, but it's also probably not worth a lot of
> effort given how few users that platform has.

If we were precisely detecting buggy compilers, the warning would have more
value; users could take it as a signal to consider upgrading or downgrading.
Given the test's present coarseness, I don't see much value.

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