Re: Use func(void) for functions with no parameters

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 03, 2025 at 10:15:41AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I noticed the only changes here are for `static` definitions. Are we
> > just more careful with normal functions, or does the compiler complain
> > more easily about such "incomplete" definitions when they're in
> > headers or need to be linked against?
>
> Some years ago we had a buildfarm animal that would complain about
> this construct, so the tree used to be clean. Probably it's just
> chance that these have only snuck into local functions.

Thank you both for looking at it!

The buildfarm animal remark makes me think to check with -Wstrict-prototypes
and -Wold-style-definition. I just did that and found two more (added in v2
attached) that the coccinelle script missed...

Those new two (run_apply_worker() and usage()) are also static, so that's just
chance.

Regards,

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