Re: tsearch2 in 7.4beta1 compile problem

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql(at)empires(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: tsearch2 in 7.4beta1 compile problem
Date: 2003-09-14 18:53:24
Message-ID: 22650.1063565604@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru> writes:
>> AFAICT tsearch2's incompatibility is in the redefined YY_INPUT macro,
>> which seems of no value for Postgres anyway. Can't we take that out?

> I resolve problem with gm4 with a help of symlink and reorder my PATH. So, it
> compiles but creates core dump while regression (postgres is compiled with
> enable-debug and enable-cassert):

I found the cause -- you had #defined malloc as palloc, etc. That
caused the yy_buffer_stack to get deallocated between calls to the
lexer, which flex isn't expecting. Since you have code to clean up
the lexer state, I don't see any need to use palloc here.

regards, tom lane

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