Re: xlc atomics

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: xlc atomics
Date: 2016-02-16 03:47:32
Message-ID: CAMsr+YFbO1dkDfd+5weeyWxFdAn9sm9O54a_f3=6Gxy571J6rg@mail.gmail.com
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On 5 July 2015 at 06:54, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> I wrote this entirely blindly, as evidenced here by the changes you
> needed. At the time somebody had promised to soon put up an aix animal,
> but that apparently didn't work out.
>

Similarly, I asked IBM for XL/C for a POWER7 Linux VM to improve test cover
on the build farm but was told to just use gcc. It was with regards to
testing hardware decfloat support and the folks I spoke to said that gcc's
support was derived from that in xl/c anyway.

They're not desperately keen to get their products out there for testing.

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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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