On 22 June 2012 01:04, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> This is nonsense. There are at least three buildfarm machines running
> compilers that do not "pretend to be gcc" (at least, configure
> recognizes them as not gcc) and are not MSVC either.
So those three don't have medium to high degrees of compatibility with GCC?
> We ought to have more IMO, because software monocultures are dangerous. Of
> those three, two pass the "quiet inline" test and one --- the newest of the three
> if I guess correctly --- does not. So it is not the case that
> !USE_INLINE is dead code, even if you adopt the position that we don't
> care about any compiler not represented in the buildfarm.
I note that you said that it doesn't pass the "quiet inline" test, and
not that it doesn't support inline functions.
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