Re: Complier warnings on mingw gcc 4.5.0

On 12/15/2010 06:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> Mingw code attached.
> Hm, where did you get this? Because it does have optreset, albeit in a
> gratuitously ABI-incompatible fashion:
>
>> #ifdef _BSD_SOURCE
>> /*
>> * BSD adds the non-standard `optreset' feature, for reinitialisation
>> * of `getopt' parsing. We support this feature, for applications which
>> * proclaim their BSD heritage, before including this header; however,
>> * to maintain portability, developers are advised to avoid it.
>> */
>> # define optreset __mingw_optreset
>>
>> extern int optreset;
>> #endif
> However, I pulled down the allegedly current mingw source tarball from
> sourceforge, and what I found in it is an older version that has *not*
> got that change. The CVS tree there doesn't seem to have it either.
> So I'm disinclined to want to rely on setting _BSD_SOURCE, as I first
> thought might be the answer --- it looks to me like only some versions
> of mingw will respond to that.
>
>

I downloaded
<http://softlayer.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/MinGW/BaseSystem/RuntimeLibrary/MinGW-RT/mingwrt-3.18/mingwrt-3.18-mingw32-src.tar.gz>
which is allegedly the source for the latest released runtime.

The section you cite is indeed in my system's getopt.h.

cheers

andrew