Re: s_lock.h default definitions are rather confused

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: s_lock.h default definitions are rather confused
Date: 2015-01-15 16:59:40
Message-ID: 20150115165940.GC18191@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-01-15 11:56:24 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > On 2015-01-15 10:57:10 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> While I'll not cry too hard when we decide to break C89 compatibility,
> >> I don't want it to happen accidentally; so having a pretty old-school
> >> compiler in the farm seems important to me.
>
> > I'd worked on setting up a modern gcc (or was it clang?) with the
> > appropriate flags to warn about !C89 stuff some time back, but failed
> > because of configure bugs.
>
> My recollection is that there isn't any reasonable way to get gcc to
> warn about C89 violations as such. -ansi -pedantic is not very fit
> for the purpose.

It was clang, which has -Wc99-extensions/-Wc11-extensions.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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