Re: cleanup in code

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: cleanup in code
Date: 2014-01-07 19:55:44
Message-ID: 52CC5BC0.8010502@vmware.com
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On 01/07/2014 05:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I think it will be like Andres said up thread, to stop multiple evaluations
>> of the expression passed to the macro.
>
> Exactly. We are not going to risk multiple evals in a macro as commonly
> used as elog/ereport; the risk/benefit ratio is just too high.
>
> I don't see anything wrong with suppressing this warning by inserting
> an additional return statement. The code is already plastered with such
> things, from the days before we had any unreachability hints in
> elog/ereport. And as I said upthread, there is no good reason to suppose
> that the unreachability hints are always recognized by every compiler.
> I take this behavior of MSVC as proof of that statement.

Yeah, I was just surprised because I thought MSVC understood it.
Committed the additional return statement.

- Heikki

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