Re: Windows vs C99 (was Re: C99 compliance for src/port/snprintf.c)

On 08/21/2018 01:31 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2018-08-21 13:29:20 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>>> So, does anyone with Windows build experience want to comment on this?
>>> The proposal is to desupport anything older than (probably) MSVC 2013,
>>> or alternatively anything that cannot compile the attached test file.
>> We've got a buildfarm handy that could answer the question.
>> Let's just stick a test function in there for a day and see
>> which animals fail.
> I think we pretty much know the answer already, anything before 2013
> will fail. The question is more whether that's problematic for the
> people building on windows. My theory, quoted by Peter upthread, is
> that it shouldn't be problematic because 2013 can build binaries that
> run on XP etc.
>

XP at least is essentially a dead platform for us. My animals are not
able to build anything after release 10.

cheers

andrew

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