Re: [PATCH] Fix build on MINGW on ARM64

On 2025-04-01 Tu 11:15 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 2025-04-01 Tu 8:47 AM, vignesh C wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 at 16:02, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2025-04-01 Tu 5:16 AM, vignesh C wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 at 00:52, Lars Kanis <lars@greiz-reinsdorf.de> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> This patch limits the workaround of using __buildin_setjmp on the
>>>>> Windows MINGW platform. This workaround is only necessary for legacy
>>>>> MSVCRT based toolchain, but not for UCRT based. It is not 
>>>>> available at
>>>>> all on clang on ARM64 resulting in the following compiler error:
>>>>>
>>>>>     error: __builtin_longjmp is not supported for the current target
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch is used since years in MSYS2 packages:
>>>>>
https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/blob/master/mingw-w64-postgresql/postgresql-14.0-use-mingw-setjmp-on-ucrt.patch
>>>>>
>>>>> It is also used in ruby-pg to allow compiling for
>>>>> aarch64-w64-windows-gnu: 
>>>>> https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/pull/626/files
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be nice if this patch could be merged upstream.
>>>> Are there any known issues with using __builtin_setjmp? I'm asking
>>>> because the comment mentions about the long standing issues in its
>>>> setjmp "However, it seems that MinGW-64 has some longstanding issues
>>>> in its setjmp support,  so on that toolchain we cheat and use gcc's
>>>> builtins. Also few users have reported segfaults when using setjmp
>>>> with MinGW as in [1].
>>>> [1] - 
>>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53709069/setjmp-longjmp-in-x86-64-w64-mingw32
>>>>
>>> That report is from quite a few years ago, so I'm not sure it really 
>>> helps.
>>>
>>> If one of you would add this to the next CF we could see how the CFbot
>>> reacts to it. In general it looks sane.
>> There is an existing CF entry for this at [1]. If no one picks this
>> till the end of this CF, we can move it to next CF.
>> [1] - https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/5610/
>>
>
>
> Somehow I missed that. OK, looks good, will commit shortly.


Done


cheers


andrew


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