pgsql: Improve our method for probing the availability of ARM CRC instr

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Improve our method for probing the availability of ARM CRC instr
Date: 2018-05-02 22:06:50
Message-ID: E1fDzti-0005p3-DP@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Improve our method for probing the availability of ARM CRC instructions.

Instead of depending on glibc's getauxval() function, just try to execute
the CRC code, and trap SIGILL if that happens.

Thomas Munro

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/HE1PR0801MB1323D171938EABC04FFE7FA9E3110@HE1PR0801MB1323.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com

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master

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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1c72ec6f498945eb5981cdedd448aec3977477c8

Modified Files
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configure | 45 ++-------------------------------------
configure.in | 21 ++----------------
src/include/pg_config.h.in | 3 ---
src/port/pg_crc32c_armv8_choose.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)

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