Re: Fix typo 586/686 in atomics/arch-x86.h - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: Fix typo 586/686 in atomics/arch-x86.h
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Msg-id af0IIJQCncN3_6-v@nathan
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In response to Re: Fix typo 586/686 in atomics/arch-x86.h  (Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Fix typo 586/686 in atomics/arch-x86.h
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On Thu, May 07, 2026 at 04:44:45PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2026 at 10:59:26PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> Attached is a patch against HEAD for this.  Reading your mail my interpretation
>> was that this was equally broken for MSVC even though the macro is correct
>> there, and we should remove both.  Was that a correct reading?
> 
> Yeah, atomics.h doesn't use the right macro for MSVC, so nothing in this
> file is compiled for MSVC anyway.  However, I suspect the proper fix is to
> make sure this file is included for MSVC.  Note that the other MSVC code in
> this file is similarly broken, but fortunately isn't used anywhere [0].

To be clear, I'm +1 on removing any 32-bit code in this file.  But the
64-bit stuff should probably be fixed.

-- 
nathan



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