Re: Patches for AIX builds..

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rick Flower <Richard(dot)Flower(at)quest(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "'pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patches for AIX builds..
Date: 2002-01-14 20:10:15
Message-ID: 18411.1011039015@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Rick Flower <Richard(dot)Flower(at)quest(dot)com> writes:
> As for the signed vs. unsigned chars, I only enabled that option as a
> way to cut down on the massive amount of warnings about type
> mismatches that occur in some of the build directories (odbc as a
> minimum) -- most directories are fine, but some of them elicit many
> warnings on this compiler/platform combination.

Hmm, I should think that -qchars=signed would make it *worse*. What I
see, in certain files, is lots of complaints that the code is implicitly
casting between "char *" and "unsigned char *". I don't recall any
places where we make use of "signed char".

regards, tom lane

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