Re: Support pg_attribute_aligned and noreturn in MSVC

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-09-21T01:17:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 08:01:20AM -0400, James Coleman wrote:
> I don't have access to a Windows machine for testing, but re-reading
> the documentation it looks like the issue is that our noreturn macro
> is used after the definition while the MSVC equivalent is used before.

A CI setup would do the job for example, see src/tools/ci/README that
explains how to set up things.

> I've removed that for now (and commented about it); it's not as
> valuable anyway since it's mostly an indicator for code analysis
> (human and machine).

Except for the fact that the patch missed to define
pg_attribute_noreturn() in the MSVC branch, this looks fine to me.  I
have been looking at what you meant with packing, and I can see the
business with PACK(), something actually doable with gcc.

That's a first step, at least, and I see no reason not to do it, so
applied.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Add definition pg_attribute_aligned() for MSVC