From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Why does load_external_function() return PGFunction? |
Date: | 2018-03-26 20:16:41 |
Message-ID: | 20180326201641.lwny3mb7girclach@alap3.anarazel.de |
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On 2018-03-26 11:31:36 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2018-03-26 11:14:03 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > > I don't think it really changes the need, but it's worthwhile to note
> > > that gcc-8 warns about this now:
> > > /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/postmaster/bgworker.c: In function ‘LookupBackgroundWorkerFunction’:
> > > /home/andres/src/postgresql/src/backend/postmaster/bgworker.c:1246:9: warning: cast between incompatible function types from ‘PGFunction’ {aka ‘long unsigned int (*)(struct FunctionCallInfoData *)’} to ‘void (*)(Datum)’ {aka ‘void (*)(long unsigned int)’} [-Wcast-function-type]
> > > return (bgworker_main_type)
> >
> > That's probably going to mean we need, or at least want, to do
> > something about this at some point. Warning-free compiles are
> > desirable.
>
> Right. We can suppress those if we want, either by adding another cast,
> or by adding -Wno-cast-function-type. The latter wouldn't be entirely a
> bad idea, it seems to be a warning of very limited benefit.
I dug up a thread about the introduction of the warning:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-10/msg00423.html
Sounds like we should add something like
typedef void (*GenericFuncPtr) (void);
or such? Similar to what Tom proposed upthread.
- Andres
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