I wrote:
> clang is complaining about the subtraction despite it being inside
> a conditional arm that cannot be reached when val is null.  It's hard
> to see how that isn't a flat-out compiler bug.
> However, granting that it isn't going to get fixed right away,
> we could replace these call sites with "relptr_store_null()",
> and maybe get rid of the conditional in relptr_store().

I've confirmed that the attached silences the warning with clang
13.0.0 (on Fedora 35).  The store_null notation is not awful, perhaps;
it makes those lines shorter and more readable.

I'm a bit less enthused about removing the conditional in relptr_store,
as that forces re-introducing it at a couple of call sites.  Perhaps
we should leave relptr_store alone ... but then the reason for
relptr_store_null is hard to explain except as a workaround for a
broken compiler.

I changed the comment suggesting that you could use relptrs with the
"process address space" as a base, because that would presumably mean
base == NULL which is going to draw the same warning.

                        regards, tom lane

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/mmgr/freepage.c b/src/backend/utils/mmgr/freepage.c
index b26a295a4e..7af8ec2283 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/mmgr/freepage.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/mmgr/freepage.c
@@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ FreePageManagerInitialize(FreePageManager *fpm, char *base)
 	Size		f;
 
 	relptr_store(base, fpm->self, fpm);
-	relptr_store(base, fpm->btree_root, (FreePageBtree *) NULL);
-	relptr_store(base, fpm->btree_recycle, (FreePageSpanLeader *) NULL);
+	relptr_store_null(base, fpm->btree_root);
+	relptr_store_null(base, fpm->btree_recycle);
 	fpm->btree_depth = 0;
 	fpm->btree_recycle_count = 0;
 	fpm->singleton_first_page = 0;
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ FreePageManagerInitialize(FreePageManager *fpm, char *base)
 #endif
 
 	for (f = 0; f < FPM_NUM_FREELISTS; f++)
-		relptr_store(base, fpm->freelist[f], (FreePageSpanLeader *) NULL);
+		relptr_store_null(base, fpm->freelist[f]);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ FreePageBtreeCleanup(FreePageManager *fpm)
 			if (root->hdr.magic == FREE_PAGE_LEAF_MAGIC)
 			{
 				/* If root is a leaf, convert only entry to singleton range. */
-				relptr_store(base, fpm->btree_root, (FreePageBtree *) NULL);
+				relptr_store_null(base, fpm->btree_root);
 				fpm->singleton_first_page = root->u.leaf_key[0].first_page;
 				fpm->singleton_npages = root->u.leaf_key[0].npages;
 			}
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ FreePageBtreeCleanup(FreePageManager *fpm)
 				Assert(root->hdr.magic == FREE_PAGE_INTERNAL_MAGIC);
 				relptr_copy(fpm->btree_root, root->u.internal_key[0].child);
 				newroot = relptr_access(base, fpm->btree_root);
-				relptr_store(base, newroot->hdr.parent, (FreePageBtree *) NULL);
+				relptr_store_null(base, newroot->hdr.parent);
 			}
 			FreePageBtreeRecycle(fpm, fpm_pointer_to_page(base, root));
 		}
@@ -634,8 +634,7 @@ FreePageBtreeCleanup(FreePageManager *fpm)
 					fpm->singleton_npages = root->u.leaf_key[0].npages +
 						root->u.leaf_key[1].npages + 1;
 					fpm->btree_depth = 0;
-					relptr_store(base, fpm->btree_root,
-								 (FreePageBtree *) NULL);
+					relptr_store_null(base, fpm->btree_root);
 					FreePagePushSpanLeader(fpm, fpm->singleton_first_page,
 										   fpm->singleton_npages);
 					Assert(max_contiguous_pages == 0);
@@ -886,8 +885,12 @@ FreePageBtreeGetRecycled(FreePageManager *fpm)
 	Assert(victim != NULL);
 	newhead = relptr_access(base, victim->next);
 	if (newhead != NULL)
+	{
 		relptr_copy(newhead->prev, victim->prev);
-	relptr_store(base, fpm->btree_recycle, newhead);
+		relptr_store(base, fpm->btree_recycle, newhead);
+	}
+	else
+		relptr_store_null(base, fpm->btree_recycle);
 	Assert(fpm_pointer_is_page_aligned(base, victim));
 	fpm->btree_recycle_count--;
 	return (FreePageBtree *) victim;
@@ -940,8 +943,11 @@ FreePageBtreeRecycle(FreePageManager *fpm, Size pageno)
 	span = (FreePageSpanLeader *) fpm_page_to_pointer(base, pageno);
 	span->magic = FREE_PAGE_SPAN_LEADER_MAGIC;
 	span->npages = 1;
-	relptr_store(base, span->next, head);
-	relptr_store(base, span->prev, (FreePageSpanLeader *) NULL);
+	if (head != NULL)
+		relptr_store(base, span->next, head);
+	else
+		relptr_store_null(base, span->next);
+	relptr_store_null(base, span->prev);
 	if (head != NULL)
 		relptr_store(base, head->prev, span);
 	relptr_store(base, fpm->btree_recycle, span);
@@ -998,7 +1004,7 @@ FreePageBtreeRemovePage(FreePageManager *fpm, FreePageBtree *btp)
 		if (parent == NULL)
 		{
 			/* We are removing the root page. */
-			relptr_store(base, fpm->btree_root, (FreePageBtree *) NULL);
+			relptr_store_null(base, fpm->btree_root);
 			fpm->btree_depth = 0;
 			Assert(fpm->singleton_first_page == 0);
 			Assert(fpm->singleton_npages == 0);
@@ -1537,7 +1543,7 @@ FreePageManagerPutInternal(FreePageManager *fpm, Size first_page, Size npages,
 			/* Create the btree and move the preexisting range into it. */
 			root->hdr.magic = FREE_PAGE_LEAF_MAGIC;
 			root->hdr.nused = 1;
-			relptr_store(base, root->hdr.parent, (FreePageBtree *) NULL);
+			relptr_store_null(base, root->hdr.parent);
 			root->u.leaf_key[0].first_page = fpm->singleton_first_page;
 			root->u.leaf_key[0].npages = fpm->singleton_npages;
 			relptr_store(base, fpm->btree_root, root);
@@ -1773,8 +1779,7 @@ FreePageManagerPutInternal(FreePageManager *fpm, Size first_page, Size npages,
 					newroot = FreePageBtreeGetRecycled(fpm);
 					newroot->hdr.magic = FREE_PAGE_INTERNAL_MAGIC;
 					newroot->hdr.nused = 2;
-					relptr_store(base, newroot->hdr.parent,
-								 (FreePageBtree *) NULL);
+					relptr_store_null(base, newroot->hdr.parent);
 					newroot->u.internal_key[0].first_page =
 						FreePageBtreeFirstKey(split_target);
 					relptr_store(base, newroot->u.internal_key[0].child,
@@ -1878,8 +1883,11 @@ FreePagePushSpanLeader(FreePageManager *fpm, Size first_page, Size npages)
 	span = (FreePageSpanLeader *) fpm_page_to_pointer(base, first_page);
 	span->magic = FREE_PAGE_SPAN_LEADER_MAGIC;
 	span->npages = npages;
-	relptr_store(base, span->next, head);
-	relptr_store(base, span->prev, (FreePageSpanLeader *) NULL);
+	if (head != NULL)
+		relptr_store(base, span->next, head);
+	else
+		relptr_store_null(base, span->next);
+	relptr_store_null(base, span->prev);
 	if (head != NULL)
 		relptr_store(base, head->prev, span);
 	relptr_store(base, fpm->freelist[f], span);
diff --git a/src/include/utils/relptr.h b/src/include/utils/relptr.h
index fdc2124d2c..15e47467a7 100644
--- a/src/include/utils/relptr.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/relptr.h
@@ -15,13 +15,16 @@
 #define RELPTR_H
 
 /*
- * Relative pointers are intended to be used when storing an address that may
- * be relative either to the base of the process's address space or some
- * dynamic shared memory segment mapped therein.
+ * Relative pointers are intended to be used when storing an address that
+ * is relative to the start of a dynamic memory segment, so that it can
+ * be interpreted by different processes that have the DSM mapped at
+ * different places in their address space.
  *
  * The idea here is that you declare a relative pointer as relptr(type)
- * and then use relptr_access to dereference it and relptr_store to change
- * it.  The use of a union here is a hack, because what's stored in the
+ * and then use relptr_access to dereference it and relptr_store or
+ * relptr_store_null to change it.
+ *
+ * The use of a union here is a hack, because what's stored in the
  * relptr is always a Size, never an actual pointer.  But including a pointer
  * in the union allows us to use stupid macro tricks to provide some measure
  * of type-safety.
@@ -56,11 +59,16 @@
 #define relptr_is_null(rp) \
 	((rp).relptr_off == 0)
 
+#define relptr_store_null(base, rp) \
+	(AssertVariableIsOfTypeMacro(base, char *), \
+	 (rp).relptr_off = 0)
+
 #ifdef HAVE__BUILTIN_TYPES_COMPATIBLE_P
 #define relptr_store(base, rp, val) \
 	(AssertVariableIsOfTypeMacro(base, char *), \
 	 AssertVariableIsOfTypeMacro(val, __typeof__((rp).relptr_type)), \
-	 (rp).relptr_off = ((val) == NULL ? 0 : ((char *) (val)) - (base)))
+	 AssertMacro((val) != NULL), \
+	 (rp).relptr_off = ((char *) (val)) - (base))
 #else
 /*
  * If we don't have __builtin_types_compatible_p, assume we might not have
@@ -68,7 +76,8 @@
  */
 #define relptr_store(base, rp, val) \
 	(AssertVariableIsOfTypeMacro(base, char *), \
-	 (rp).relptr_off = ((val) == NULL ? 0 : ((char *) (val)) - (base)))
+	 AssertMacro((val) != NULL), \
+	 (rp).relptr_off = ((char *) (val)) - (base))
 #endif
 
 #define relptr_copy(rp1, rp2) \

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