Re: Not-terribly-safe checks for CRC intrinsic support

On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> In short, I think we ought to apply and perhaps back-patch something
> like the attached.

Seems like reasonable defensive coding and consistency.

-    /* return computed value, to prevent the above being optimized away */
+    /* else this function could get optimized away altogether: */

-    /* return computed value, to prevent the above being optimized away */
+    /* return computed value, just to be extra sure this isn't
optimized away */

I'd be okay with keeping the original comment, though, since it seems
to be explaining the choice well enough.

> BTW, it looks to me like PGAC_AVX512_POPCNT_INTRINSICS is at similar
> hazard, but I'm not entirely sure how to fix that one.

"buf" is the variable there that we're loading from, so that would be
the one to make global.

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John Naylor
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