Tom Lane wrote:
> After pushing 2c713d6e, I realized that the buildfarm isn't going to tell
> me anything useful about it, because the change only makes a difference
> for icc on ia64, and we have no such members in the buildfarm. (We've
> got icc, and we've got ia64, but not both in the same place.)
>
> It's fairly worrisome that we don't have this case covered, considering
> that there's a whole bunch of bespoke code for the case. Now, I'm trying
> to remove most of the special-case code, but it's hard to be sure if this
> will work --- maybe icc is only compatible with gcc asm on x86[_64] and
> not on ia64 :-(
>
> Anyway, if anyone could see whether HEAD still works on such a platform,
> I'd appreciate it.
I have pinged the EDB team that maintains the only IA64 machine we have.
It runs HP-UX. I'm not sure how easy it is to get Intel's compiler
there ...
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