On 2020-Nov-24, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 04:55, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> walleye's been failing since this patchset went in:
> >> I have no idea what to make of that, but it looks more like a compiler bug
> >> than anything else.
>
> > I wondered if #if !defined(__MINGW32__) && !defined(__MINGW64__) would
> > be the correct fix for it... aka, just define the new
> > pg_attribute_(hot|cold) macros to empty on MinGW.
>
> I'd make any such fix as narrow as possible (ie MINGW64 only, based on
> present evidence). It'd be nice to have a compiler version upper bound
> too, in the hopes that they'd fix it in future. Maybe something like
> "#if defined(__MINGW64__) && defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ <= 8" ?
Apparently the bug was fixed days after it was reported,
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86048
but they haven't made a release containing the fix yet.
