[Info-vax] Status of the PostgreSQL port?

John Reagan xyzzy1959 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 21:27:35 EDT 2015


On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 8:05:58 PM UTC-4, abrsvc wrote:
> To answer your specific question, I'm not sure.  But I would propose a different approach:
> 
> During the port to the Alpha platform, there were many common practices that needed to change.  Why can't the move to the X86 platform be similar.  Document the changes and provide solutions to address the code that needs to change.
> 

>From VAX to Alpha, we did a pretty good job at recompile-and-go.  That was near the VAX C to DEC C transition which had nothing to do with Alpha directly.

OK, who wants to get rid of /STANDARD=VAXC?  #pragma warning ?  VAX floating support?  Mixed-pointer sizes?




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