Re: Windows vs C99 (was Re: C99 compliance for src/port/snprintf.c)

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Sandeep Thakkar <sandeep(dot)thakkar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Windows vs C99 (was Re: C99 compliance for src/port/snprintf.c)
Date: 2018-08-24 18:12:55
Message-ID: 20180824181255.wsuuw273hykwk3w4@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2018-08-24 14:09:09 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I have installed VS2017 on bowerbird and a test is currently running. It's
> got past the make phase so I assume everything is kosher.

Cool, thanks.

> However, we only support VS2017 down to 9.6 and Vs2015 down to 9.5. Perhaps
> we should consider backpatching support for those down to 9.3.

Hm, I have no strong objections to that. I don't think it's strictly
necessary, given 2013 is supported across the board, but for the non MSVC
world, we do fix compiler issues in older branches. There's not that
much code for the newer versions afaict?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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