On 3/21/18 01:51, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> On March 20, 2018 8:24:41 PM PDT, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>>> Yeah, I agree with that. Just not using stdbool.h in those cases ought
>>> to be fine. Any platforms where sizeof(bool) is 4 involves macos older
>>> than 10.5 and Windows platforms using MSVC versions older than 2003
>>> (didn't look further down either).
>
>> Aren't there some somewhat modern architectures where that's still the case, for performance reasons? PPC or such?
>
> Well, hydra (F16 on ppc64) has sizeof(bool) = 1. Don't have any other
> good datapoints handy. Presumably we'd set up configure to report
> what it found out, so it wouldn't take long to survey the buildfarm.
I've pushed the configure tests. Let's see what they say.
--
Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
