Re: [PORTS] solaris build problem with Sun compilers

Tom Lane <[email protected]> Fri, 12 May 2006 14:22:18 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> [ shrug... ]  The person who submitted the solaris_sparc.s change failed
>> to provide any evidence that it was anything but cosmetic, so I didn't
>> worry about changing the equivalent gcc code.  If there's actually a
>> performance win, please cite chapter and verse.  Also, shouldn't we be
>> worrying about breaking older Sparc chips?  Does CAS go all the way
>> back?

> I don't think it is a good idea to be using different ASM instructions
> based for different compilers --- they should be the same.

Yeah, and if I'd been applying the patch, the sparc version would have
stayed at ldstub.  Like I say, there was no compelling evidence offered
for changing it.

			regards, tom lane

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