Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Niyas Sait <niyas.sait@linaro.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, robhenry@microsoft.com, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-05-07T00:37:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, May 06, 2023 at 12:35:40AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Indeed, there's not much in this patch ... but it's impossible to see
> how "run on an entirely new platform" isn't a new feature.  Moreover,
> it's a platform that very few of us will have any ability to support
> or debug for.  I can't see how it's a good idea to shove this in
> post-feature-freeze.  Let's plan to push it in when v17 opens.

Fine by me.  I have added an entry in the CF app to remember about
this stuff as there was nothing present yet:
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/43/4309/
--
Michael

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