Re: Back branches vs. gcc 4.8.0

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Back branches vs. gcc 4.8.0
Date: 2013-04-05 22:44:05
Message-ID: CAM3SWZQ-J15iP7P9KrrPXO_NqgxAyXDgk1DEP4UhoEfeXPvNOA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> The respective macro magic is already in place, its just not used in all
> places. The problem is more that we can't easily use it in all places
> because e.g. in the one case mentioned here the array isn't in the last
> place *in the back branches*.

Are you proposing that we use the FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER macro in every
single place where we currently use the one element array pattern? I
count one place where we currently use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER. It'd be
pretty ugly to have that everywhere, in my opinion.

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Peter Geoghegan

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