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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: AIX support - alignment issues
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:24:36 -0400
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Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> * The documented list mentions some in different endiannesses and word
> sizes explicitly but not others; I think it'd be tidier to list the
> main architecture names and then tack on a "big and little endian, 32
> and 64 bit" sentence.

As phrased, this seems to be saying that we can do both
endiannesses on any of the supported arches, which is a little
weird considering that most of them are single-endianness.  It's
not a big deal, but maybe a tad more word-smithing there would
help?

> * Since Greg Stark's magnificent Vax talk[1], we became even more
> dependent on IEEE 754 via the Ryu algorithm.  AFAICT, unless someone
> produces a software IEEE math implementation for GCC/VAX...  if I had
> a pick one to bump off that list, that's the easiest to argue because
> it definitely doesn't work.

Agreed.  In principle I'd wish that we were not tied to one
floating-point format, but the benefits of Ryu are too hard to
pass up; and reality on the ground is that IEEE 754 achieved
total victory a couple decades ago.  We should stop claiming
that VAX is a realistic target platform.

> What do you think about the attached?

WFM.  Also, that crypt-blowfish.c hunk offers an answer to
your question about whether to worry about "__hppa".

			regards, tom lane





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