Re: quiet inline configure check misses a step for clang

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: quiet inline configure check misses a step for clang
Date: 2014-04-03 14:15:33
Message-ID: 17506.1396534533@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2014-04-03 09:43:20 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I object to the latter; you're proposing to greatly increase the warning
>> noise seen with any compiler that issues a warning for this without caring
>> about .h vs .c. For somebody who finds gcc -pedantic unusable, I would
>> think you'd have a bit more sympathy for people using other compilers.

> Yea, but which compilers are that? The only one in the buildfarm I could
> find a couple weeks back was acc, and there's a flag we could add to the
> relevant template that silences it. I also don't think that very old
> platforms won't usually be used for active development, so a louder
> build there doesn't really have the same impact as noisy builds for
> actively developed on platforms.

Didn't we already have this discussion last year? The main points
are all mentioned in

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoYJnc4B+8y01gRnAL52GTPbzc3ZsC4SdNW4LGxHqT3Bgg@mail.gmail.com

regards, tom lane

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