Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] snprintf causes regression tests to fail

Nicolai Tufar wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:45:31 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Nicolai Tufar <ntufar@gmail.com> writes:
> > Just out of curiosity, do either HAVE_INT64 or HAVE_UINT64 get set
> > in pg_config.h?  The observed symptoms would be explained if typedef
> > int64 were ending up as "long" rather than "long long".  Looking at
> > the #ifdef nest in include/c.h, there are a couple of ways that could
> > happen, including importing a definition from system header files.
> >
> > If this were happening, it would presumably break all int8 math not
> > only snprintf, so I'm not sure it's the story.
>
> I am looking into it. Will report if find something of importance.
>
> > As far as I've seen,
> > no one has actually posted the regression diffs seen in this failure,
> > so most of us are in the dark about the details of the problem.
>
> Regression diiff is attached. The problem is reported by Magnus
> and me. Probably nobody else compiles pg under Win32 these
> days.

I am testing the failure here.  I will keep at it until I find the
cause.

The only downside is that Win32 compiles are much slower than Unix.

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