From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: Detection of hadware feature => please do not use signal
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> On 31/10/2024 19:48, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Maybe we could do it one way on linux and the other way everywhere
>> else, but I do not find that attractive; it just makes it harder
>> to get full test coverage.

> Bastien, would you happen to know how other portable libraries that need 
> to run on other operating system do this? We added the SIGILL probe back 
> in 2018, there might be better options available now.

It occurs to me to wonder whether the existing code works on Windows.
Windows-on-ARM wasn't a thing we thought about in 2018, but it's
a reasonable target now.

			regards, tom lane