Re: pgsql: Silence compiler warning on win32.

Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Surely this patch is wrong. It is suppressing, not fixing, a critical
>> warning about a datatype mismatch.

> You mean the signed vs unsigned part? Other than that, int and dword are
> always the same on win32...

Hmm, need more caffeine I guess. I was thinking dword == long. But in
any case, I'd feel a lot more comfortable if the patch ifdef'd the
declaration of exit_status to match, rather than forcing a cast of the
pointer value. Just a couple weeks ago I wasted a great deal of time
finding a bug that was created by someone overriding this exact type of
compiler warning with a cast to something that *wasn't* binary
compatible. (It worked fine on the author's machine, of course, but
not so much on one with a different sizeof long...)

regards, tom lane