Re: Should we excise the remnants of borland cc support?

On September 20, 2014 4:03:43 PM CEST, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
>On 09/20/2014 09:24 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> At the moment there's some rememnants of support for borland CC. I
>don't
>> believe it's likely that any of it still works. I can't remember ever
>> seing a buildfarm animal running it either - not surprising it's ~15
>> years since the last release.
>> Since there's both msvc and mingw support for windows builds -
>borlands
>> only platform - I see little point in continuing to support it.
>>
>> The reason I'm wondering is that the atomics patch cargo cults
>forward
>> some stuff specific to borland and I'd rather not do that. And I'd
>> rather be explicit about stopping to do so than slyly doing it.
>>
>
>I thought the Borland stuff was there only so we could build client 
>libraries for use with things like Delphi.

That really still relies on a 15 year old compiler?

The stuff I was thinking of - barriers and spinlocks among others - is backend only anyway?

Andres

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