Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oKTdl-0005Wq-6H for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2022 23:55:33 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oKTdj-00085G-SJ for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2022 23:55:31 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oKTdj-000856-Io for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2022 23:55:31 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oKTdh-0001MQ-JV for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2022 23:55:31 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 276NtPnY152684; Sat, 6 Aug 2022 19:55:25 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Thomas Munro cc: Andres Freund , Andrew Dunstan , Robert Haas , pgsql-hackers Subject: Re: Cleaning up historical portability baggage In-reply-to: References: <1662559.1657648462@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1249825.1658622186@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20220804013546.h65najrzig764jar@awork3.anarazel.de> <3295936.1659577924@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20220804023010.24snkyq3hser5pxq@awork3.anarazel.de> <20220805210823.u546w4p4wzfany7p@awork3.anarazel.de> Comments: In-reply-to Thomas Munro message dated "Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:47:31 +1200" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <152682.1659830125.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2022 19:55:25 -0400 Message-ID: <152683.1659830125@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Thomas Munro writes: > So what about strtof? That's gotta be dead code too. I gather we > still need commit 72880ac1's HAVE_BUGGY_STRTOF. From a cursory glance > at MinGW's implementation, it still has the complained-about > behaviour, if I've understood the complaint, and if I'm looking at the > right C runtime[1]. Looks plausible from here. regards, tom lane