Re: [PATCH] Suppress Clang 3.9 warnings

From: Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Suppress Clang 3.9 warnings
Date: 2017-02-20 14:34:30
Message-ID: 20170220143430.GE12278@e733.localdomain
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In theory - could we just always use our internal strl* implementations?

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 09:26:44AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> writes:
> > I've just tried to build PostgreSQL with Clang 3.9.1 (default version
> > currently available in Arch Linux) and noticed that it outputs lots of
> > warning messages. Most of them are result of a bug in Clang itself:
> >
> > postinit.c:846:3: note: include the header <string.h> or explicitly
> > provide a declaration for 'strlcpy'
>
> It might be an incompatibility with the platform-supplied string.h
> rather than an outright bug, but yeah, that's pretty annoying.
>
> > The rest of warnings looks more like something we could easily deal with:
>
> It's hard to get excited about these if there are going to be hundreds
> of the other ones ...
>
> regards, tom lane

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

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