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Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Anthony Roberts <anthony.roberts@linaro.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Mike Holmes <mike.holmes@linaro.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@linaro.org>
Date: 2023-09-14T09:39:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> On 13 Sep 2023, at 21:12, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
> 
> On 31.08.23 06:44, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I agree.  I'm really uncomfortable with claiming support for
>> Windows-on-ARM if we don't have a buildfarm member testing it.
>> For other platforms that have a track record of multiple
>> hardware support, it might not be a stretch ... but Windows was
>> so resolutely Intel-only for so long that "it works on ARM" is
>> a proposition that I won't trust without hard evidence.  There
>> are too many bits of that system that might not have gotten the
>> word yet, or at least not gotten sufficient testing.
>> My vote for this is we don't commit without a buildfarm member.
> 
> I think we can have a multi-tiered approach, where we can commit support but consider it experimental until we have buildfarm coverage.

If it's experimental it should probably be behind an opt-in flag in
autoconf/meson, or be reverted by the time REL_17_STABLE branches unless
coverage has materialized by then.

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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