Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I can't see us moving the compiler goalposts one inch for this.
>> "I'm going to break building on your compiler in order to work around
>> bugs in somebody else's compiler" isn't gonna fly.
> I was proposing to implement wrappers around them that do the checks
> manually if they're not present.
As long as there's a fallback for compilers without the builtins, fine.
I read your question as suggesting that you were thinking about not
providing a fallback ...
regards, tom lane
