Re: [BUG?] macOS (Intel) build warnings: "ranlib: file … has no symbols" for aarch64 objects - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: [BUG?] macOS (Intel) build warnings: "ranlib: file … has no symbols" for aarch64 objects
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In response to Re: [BUG?] macOS (Intel) build warnings: "ranlib: file … has no symbols" for aarch64 objects  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 01:27:43PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> The idea I'd had was to simply merge pg_popcount_aarch64.c
> and pg_popcount_x86.c into one file.  Since each one is basically
> one giant #ifdef block conditioned on a different symbol, they'd not
> interfere.  But I wouldn't propose this unless it made sense from
> a code-structure viewpoint, and I'm not sure it does.  It could
> make sense if there was some code that could be shared, but I'm
> not seeing much.

Yeah, even after the upcoming code simplification I'm working on, I'm not
sure that makes sense.

-- 
nathan



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