Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt (cash.c) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt (cash.c)
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Msg-id 3A18CCEA.C69AA390@alumni.caltech.edu
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Responses RPM's -fsigned-char (Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt (cash.c))  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Modify locale code to defend against possibility that it was compiled
> with an -fsigned-char/-funsigned-char setting opposite to that of libc,
> thus breaking the convention that 'undefined' values returned by
> localeconv() are represented by CHAR_MAX.  It is sheer stupidity that
> gcc even has such a switch --- it's just as bad as the structure-packing
> control switches offered by the more brain-dead PC compilers --- and
> as for the behavior of Linux distribution vendors who set RPM_OPT_FLAGS
> differently from the way they built libc, well, words fail me...

Which distros would these be? I know that Mandrake chooses some mutually
exclusive flags (-On and -fast-math) but am not sure which other ones
are inconsistant...
                     - Thomas


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