Re: v16 fails to build w/ Visual Studio 2015 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: v16 fails to build w/ Visual Studio 2015
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Msg-id 20230607212105.ihtoaq27brf5jztb@awork3.anarazel.de
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In response to v16 fails to build w/ Visual Studio 2015  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
Responses Re: v16 fails to build w/ Visual Studio 2015
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Hi,

On 2023-06-07 11:54:58 -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> Visual Studio 2015 version "14.0.25431.01 Update 3" has an apparent compiler
> bug that causes the build to fail with "readfuncs.switch.c(522): fatal error
> C1026: parser stack overflow, program too complex (compiling source file
> src/backend/nodes/readfuncs.c)".  While I wouldn't mind revoking support for
> Visual Studio 2015, changing the code to cope is easy.  See attached.

I don't see a point in trying to keep Visual Studio 2015 working. We have no
automated testing for it, as evidenced by this issue. It seems quite possible
we're going to hit such issues in other places.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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