Re: Client build of MSVC6+ patch - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Client build of MSVC6+ patch
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Msg-id 3917.24.211.165.134.1152220184.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Client build of MSVC6+ patch  (Petr Jelinek <pjmodos@pjmodos.net>)
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Petr Jelinek said:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> I'm still not very happy - we never got a reply about why the
>> reordering  was needed at all. Referring in some way to FBSD doesn't
>> really answer  for Windows. I am currently without a Windows box I can
>> use, so I am  dependent on asking questions.
>
> Well, in MSVC addrinfo is defined this way (as in patch) too. MSVC does
>  even have IPv6 detection in its header files.
>


That's certainly a better answer.

Does the detection work at runtime, or is it static? IIRC we found that
static detection broke the binary portability on Windows.

cheers

andrew



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