| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] taking stdbool.h into use |
| Date: | 2018-03-21 05:51:01 |
| Message-ID: | 23056.1521611461@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On March 20, 2018 8:24:41 PM PDT, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>> Yeah, I agree with that. Just not using stdbool.h in those cases ought
>> to be fine. Any platforms where sizeof(bool) is 4 involves macos older
>> than 10.5 and Windows platforms using MSVC versions older than 2003
>> (didn't look further down either).
> Aren't there some somewhat modern architectures where that's still the case, for performance reasons? PPC or such?
Well, hydra (F16 on ppc64) has sizeof(bool) = 1. Don't have any other
good datapoints handy. Presumably we'd set up configure to report
what it found out, so it wouldn't take long to survey the buildfarm.
regards, tom lane
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