Re: AIX support - alignment issues

On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 4:24 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > * The documented list mentions some in different endiannesses and word
> > sizes explicitly but not others; I think it'd be tidier to list the
> > main architecture names and then tack on a "big and little endian, 32
> > and 64 bit" sentence.
>
> As phrased, this seems to be saying that we can do both
> endiannesses on any of the supported arches, which is a little
> weird considering that most of them are single-endianness. It's
> not a big deal, but maybe a tad more word-smithing there would
> help?

OK, I word-smothe thusly:

+ and PA-RISC, including
+ big-endian, little-endian, 32-bit, and 64-bit variants where applicable.

I also realised that we should list a couple more OSes (we know they
work, they are automatically tested). Then I wondered why we bother
to state a Windows version here. For consistency, we could list the
minimum Linux kernel, and so on for every other OS, but that's silly
for such brief and general documentation. So I propose that we just
say "current versions of ..." and remove the bit about Windows 10.