Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:07:18 +0900
From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Niyas Sait <niyas.sait@linaro.org>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>,
	Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>,
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 10:43:06AM +0100, Niyas Sait wrote:
>> This issue is still lying around, and you may have been lucky.  Would
>> there be any issues to remove this change to get a basic support in?
>> As mentioned upthread, there is a long history of Postgres with ASLR.
>=20
> MSVC linker doesn't allow non-random base addresses for Arm64 platforms.
> It is needed for basic support.

Why does it not allow that?  Is that just a limitation of the
compiler?  If yes, what is the error happening?  This question is not
exactly answered yet as of this thread.  I may be missing a reference
about that in the upstream docs, but I see nowhere an explanation
about the reason and the why.  That's also one of the first questions
=66rom Thomas upthread.
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Michael

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