Tom Lane wrote:
> Suppress some "variable might be clobbered by longjmp" warnings.
> 
> Seen with an older gcc version.  I'm not sure these represent any real
> risk factor, but still a bit scary.  Anyway we have lots of other
> volatile-marked variables in this code, so a couple more won't hurt.

I assume you saw my comment in basebackup.c:
	
	 *  Some old compilers, e.g. gcc 2.95.3/x86, think that passing
	 *  a struct in the same function as a longjump might clobber
	 *  a variable.  bjm 2011-02-04
	 *  http://lists.apple.com/archives/xcode-users/2003/Dec//msg00051.html

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