On September 20, 2014 4:03:43 PM CEST, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > >On 09/20/2014 09:24 AM, Andres Freund wrote: >> Hi, >> >> At the moment there's some rememnants of support for borland CC. I >don't >> believe it's likely that any of it still works. I can't remember ever >> seing a buildfarm animal running it either - not surprising it's ~15 >> years since the last release. >> Since there's both msvc and mingw support for windows builds - >borlands >> only platform - I see little point in continuing to support it. >> >> The reason I'm wondering is that the atomics patch cargo cults >forward >> some stuff specific to borland and I'd rather not do that. And I'd >> rather be explicit about stopping to do so than slyly doing it. >> > >I thought the Borland stuff was there only so we could build client >libraries for use with things like Delphi.
That really still relies on a 15 year old compiler? The stuff I was thinking of - barriers and spinlocks among others - is backend only anyway? Andres -- Please excuse brevity and formatting - I am writing this on my mobile phone. Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
