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Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Niyas Sait <niyas.sait@linaro.org>, 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>
Date: 2022-08-26T03:29:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2022-08-26 11:09:41 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 06:29:07PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I accidentally did a lot of testing with DYNAMICBASE - I accidentally
> > mistranslated MSBuildProject.pm's <RandomizedBaseAddress>false</> to adding
> > /DYNAMICBASE in the meson port. Survived several hundred CI cycles and dozens
> > of local runs without observing any problems related to that.
> > 
> > Which doesn't surprise me, given the way we reserve space in the new process.
> 
> Still, we had problems with that in the past and I don't recall huge
> changes in the way we allocate shmem on WIN32.

It's really not great that 7f3e17b4827 disabled randomization without even a
comment as to why...

There actually seems to have been a lot of work in that area. See 617dc6d299c
/ bcbf2346d69 and as well as the retrying in 45e004fb4e39. Those weren't
prevented by us disabling ASLR.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. MSVC: Support building for AArch64.

  2. Remove "#ifdef WIN32" guards from src/port/win32*.c

  3. Adjust XML test case to avoid unstable behavior.

  4. Enable RandomizedBaseAddress (ASLR) on Windows with MSVC builds