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Re: Type assertions without GCC builtins

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> — 2025-12-13T19:23:01Z

On 19.11.25 19:44, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Yeah, I had been playing with a similar patch, which now also crashes on 
> CI, but I'm pretty sure this worked at some point.  So maybe an upgrade 
> or downgrade would fix it.
> 
> Note however that similar to the comment I made over about stdatomic.h, 
> we currently still have buildfarm members with gcc <4.9, which don't 
> support _Generic.
> 
> The attached 0001 patch, which is also contained in your patch, should 
> be applied nonetheless.  After researching the history, I think when 
> relptr.h was added, it just took a shortcut with the configure checks 
> available at the time, and we should just correct it now.

I have committed this 0001 patch.  The rest of this discussion is still 
pending.