Re: Itanium HP-UX build failure, register stack

On 04/13/2011 05:12 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> The code we added recently to the stack-depth check to also check the
> register stack on ia64 doesn't compile on HP-UX B.11.31, using the HP
> aCC compiler:
>
> cc -Ae +O2 -g -I../../../src/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -c -o
> postgres.o postgres.c
> "postgres.c", line 3002: warning #2837-D: omission of explicit type is
> nonstandard ("int" assumed)
> static __inline__ char *
> ^
>
> "postgres.c", line 3002: error #2065: expected a ";"
> static __inline__ char *
> ^
>
> I committed a fix for that using the HP-UX specific _Asm_mov_from_ar
> macro, similar to how we use _Asm_xchg for TAS().
>
> With this, 8.4 compiles on HP-UX again, yeaee! 9.0 still has this
> issue:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/msg01971.php.
> I'll take a look at that..

I wish we could get some buildfarm coverage for HPUX. I've whined about
this in the past, but nobody's ever made an offer to provide suitable
platform(s) that I know of.

cheers

andrew