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[Steve Ellcey <sje@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 19:25 +0100, Vladislav Vaintroub wrote:

> > A word of warning upfront before trying HP compiler. Unless xlc has changed
> > its defaults  in the last year or two, you'd need to set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS
> > env.vars prior to CMake so it compiles for Itanium.
> 
> Scratch xlc, that was AIX, not HPUX...  But the rest of the warning applies :)
> 
> >  it was either +DD64 or maybe +DSitanium2 or something similar. Otherwise
> > the build would produce  PA-RISC binaries (those binaries are runnable on
> > the HPUX Itanium,  due to some emulation layer, but it is likely not what
> > people expect)

Well, I tried building Mariadb with the HP compiler and I ran into a
problem with anonymous unions.  In 5.3.2 the anonymous unions (and
anonymous struct) in st_dynamic_column_value were changed to have names.

This change does not seem to be in 5.5.  I don't know if that is
intentional or accidental but it makes it more difficult to compile the
5.5 code with the HP compiler.

Steve Ellcey
sje@xxxxxxxxxx