Re: [HACKERS] taking stdbool.h into use - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] taking stdbool.h into use
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Msg-id 529941f4-e321-043c-d6d6-13045f7b953a@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] taking stdbool.h into use  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 3/20/18 02:18, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think it'd be worth identifying exactly which platforms have
> sizeof(bool) different from 1.  Are any of them things that anyone
> cares about going forward?  The point of this patch is to ease
> future development of extensions, but it's unlikely any extension
> authors care about portability onto, say, macOS 10.4 (prairiedog).

I'm not sure I follow.  Say we commit configure tests and discover that
platforms A, B, and C are affected.  What would we do with that
information?  I don't think we are saying we'd just break A, B, and C.

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