Re: Make copyObject work in C++

On Mon, 9 Mar 2026 at 09:39, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
> I think we should really work to
> get rid of __builtin_types_compatible_p() and replace it with _Generic,
> which would be portable beyond GCC.

I initially intended to do this, but sadly using _Generic inside our
static assert constructs (even the new version you added) causes
internal compiler errors on MSVC 19... I agree with your other
feedback, and I think it's probably best to retract this patch (I've
marked it as committeed in the commitfest now, because of all the
other patches). The main reason I cared about this was to have a
_Generic based macro for type comparisons, which I could use in other
patches. I'll just create some there instead.