Re: Problem with ControlFileData structure being ABI dependent - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Gregory Stark wrote:

>This is because of (at least) two changes in the ABI between the runtimes used
>by mingw and VC++.
> 1) Enums are apparently 8 bytes on VC++ but 4 bytes on mingw

They are 4 bytes here on my 32 bit WinXP machine with VS2005SP1.

> 2) time_t is 8 bytes on VC++ but 4 bytes on mingw.

Not sure whether an 8 byte time_t is now required by postgres. But you can get
the old behaviour by defining _USE_32BIT_TIME_T.

Rainer