Re: Compiler warnings with MinGW - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Compiler warnings with MinGW
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Msg-id 20190907025814.GA684@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: Compiler warnings with MinGW  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Compiler warnings with MinGW
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On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 12:11:25AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I'm not sure exactly what the upstream of mingw is these days, but I
> think the original issue that led to 811be893 has long been fixed [0],
> and the other stuff in mingwcompat.c is also no longer relevant [1].  I
> think mingwcompat.c could be removed altogether.  I'm not sure to what
> extent we need to support 5+ year old mingw versions.

On HEAD I would not be against removing that as this leads to a
cleanup of our code.  For MSVC, we only support VS 2013~ on HEAD, so
saying that we don't support MinGW older than what was proposed 5
years ago sounds sensible.
--
Michael

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