Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support
Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
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: 2023-09-19T08:33:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 14.09.23 11:39, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: >> 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. The author's email is bouncing now, due to job change, so it's unlikely we will see any progress on this anymore. I am setting it to returned with feedback.
Commits
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MSVC: Support building for AArch64.
- a516b3f00d74 19 (unreleased) landed
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Remove "#ifdef WIN32" guards from src/port/win32*.c
- 09eb633e1baa 17.0 cited
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Adjust XML test case to avoid unstable behavior.
- 4ea07e7cf3c6 16.0 landed
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Enable RandomizedBaseAddress (ASLR) on Windows with MSVC builds
- 36389a060ca6 16.0 landed