Re: MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF on Windows-32

Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I see though that the comment in pg_config.h.win32 claims it was derived
>>> from mechanically-generated configure output, so unless that's lying
>>> it should be OK already. 
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>> It's not - it started out as a copy of the output of ./configure on mingw.
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> "Started out as"?  Good luck keeping it in sync, if it's not
> mechanically created.
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ISTM this is symptomatic of the MSVC build system problems. I understand 
why Dave and Magnus want to use it, but essentially it is breaking one 
of the original requirements of our building on Windows at all, namely 
that we use a unified build tool chain. It's a thousand pities.

cheers

andrew