Igor Kovalenko writes:
> It depends. QNX4 may be used with GCC, in which case it does have long long.
> I am not sure if that combination will play along with Postgres, but it
> should not be assumed impossible.
The point is, it should not be assumed possible.
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] "make report"
> Thomas Lockhart writes:
>
> > Right. The two areas which come to mind are integer availability and th
Thomas Lockhart writes:
> Right. The two areas which come to mind are integer availability and the
> timezone support (as you might know we support *three* different time
> zone models). At the moment, none of the developers know the features
> supported on the platforms we claim to support. Whic
> If you want to collect information about what features are portable you
> can check other software packages, product manuals, ports trees, etc.
> Most issues are documented someplace.
Oh goodness. Thanks for offering me a new hobby ;)
> Btw., yes, 8 byte integers are missing on some platforms.
Thomas Lockhart writes:
> I'd like to implement *something* to help us collect information on what
> platforms actually have what features. This would be useful, for
> example, for figuring out whether any platforms are lacking 8 byte
> integers or are missing timezone infrastructure.
I don't th
Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was thinking about something like "make report" which would mail the
> results of ./configure to, say, the ports mailing list. We could mention
> it in the text message printed at the end of the make cycle.
I think it'd be a bad idea to encourage pe
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Suggestion: Why not embed this information into the binary, and
> provide some way of extracting it.
I like this!
> [Downside: "Announcement, script kiddies: If you find option
> UPDATE_DESCR_TABS=1 in the configuration information, then there's a
> I'd like to implement *something* to help us collect information on what
> platforms actually have what features. This would be useful, for
> example, for figuring out whether any platforms are lacking 8 byte
> integers or are missing timezone infrastructure.
>
> I was thinking about something
I'd like to implement *something* to help us collect information on what
platforms actually have what features. This would be useful, for
example, for figuring out whether any platforms are lacking 8 byte
integers or are missing timezone infrastructure.
I was thinking about something like "make r
