Re: Remove support for Visual Studio 2013 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Remove support for Visual Studio 2013
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Msg-id Yo/pw2D8MQutXmtR@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: Remove support for Visual Studio 2013  (Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>)
Responses Re: Remove support for Visual Studio 2013  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 10:43:11AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:

Ah, thanks.  I forgot to grep for those patterns.  Good catches.

> Maybe consider removing this workaround?  The original problem report indicated
> that it didn't affect later versions:
>
> src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c:  /* This apparently-useless variable dodges a compiler bug in VS2013: */

Hence reverting 3154e16.  Sure!

> I'm not sure if it's worth removing this one, though:
>
> src/port/strtof.c: * On Windows, there's a slightly different problem: VS2013 has a strtof()

Yeah..  I am not completely sure if all the patterns mentioned for
VS2013 apply to Cygwin/Mingw, so keeping it around could be more
beneficial.
--
Michael

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