Re: Fwd: Re: Compile fails on AIX 6.1

"Lars Ewald (web.de)" <l.ewald-web@lars-ewald.de> writes:
>> We don't really consider a platform
>> supported unless it's got working spinlocks.

> I am a little bit confused about that.

Well, so are we.

> Or is there a problem on the specific machine? Or is there something disabled
> in the kernel?

It seems to be a toolchain problem, ie, compiler or assembler doing
something unexpected with our PPC spinlock code.  But we don't really
have enough info to diagnose.  I can think of a bunch of ways it might
have gone wrong, but we seem to have eliminated all those theories :-(

            regards, tom lane