From 23fc6298e9176b38f6d86390b8af4784b889d3a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Rowley <dgrowley@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:49:03 +1200
Subject: [PATCH v3] Detect elog(ERROR) can't return in MSVC when using C11

---
 meson.build                            | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 src/backend/backup/basebackup_target.c |  4 ++--
 src/include/c.h                        | 17 ++++++++++++++++
 src/include/utils/elog.h               | 16 +++++++--------
 4 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 5365aaf95e6..13ad0faf91c 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1704,6 +1704,18 @@ endif
 # Compiler tests
 ###############################################################
 
+# Test to see if the compiler supports C11
+c11_test = '''
+#if !defined(__STDC_VERSION__) || __STDC_VERSION__ < 201112L
+#error "C11 not supported"
+#endif
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+  return 0;
+}
+'''
+
 # Do we need -std=c99 to compile C99 code? We don't want to add -std=c99
 # unnecessarily, because we optionally rely on newer features.
 c99_test = '''
@@ -1737,7 +1749,21 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 }
 '''
 
-if not cc.compiles(c99_test, name: 'c99', args: test_c_args)
+# The current minimum version of MSVC we currently support supports at least
+# C11, so lets try to compile with C11.  Check if we need to actually pass the
+# /std:c11 flag for that to work.  If this test ends up adding the C11 flag,
+# then the C99 test below should always pass and never add the C99 flag.
+if cc.get_id() == 'msvc' and not cc.compiles(c11_test, name: 'c11', args: test_c_args)
+  if cc.compiles(c11_test, name: 'c11 with /std:c11',
+        args: test_c_args + ['/std:c11'])
+    test_c_args += '/std:c11'
+    cflags += '/std:c11'
+  else
+    error('C compiler does not support C11')
+  endif
+endif
+
+if cc.get_id() != 'msvc' and not cc.compiles(c99_test, name: 'c99', args: test_c_args)
   if cc.compiles(c99_test, name: 'c99 with -std=c99',
         args: test_c_args + ['-std=c99'])
     test_c_args += '-std=c99'
diff --git a/src/backend/backup/basebackup_target.c b/src/backend/backup/basebackup_target.c
index 84b1309d3bd..01705368950 100644
--- a/src/backend/backup/basebackup_target.c
+++ b/src/backend/backup/basebackup_target.c
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ BaseBackupGetTargetHandle(char *target, char *target_detail)
 			(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
 			 errmsg("unrecognized target: \"%s\"", target)));
 
-	/* keep compiler quiet */
-	return NULL;
+	/* comment out for testing. Not for commit. */
+	/* return NULL; */
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/src/include/c.h b/src/include/c.h
index 6d4495bdd9f..6603d22c4df 100644
--- a/src/include/c.h
+++ b/src/include/c.h
@@ -332,6 +332,23 @@
 #define pg_unreachable() abort()
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Define a compiler-independent macro for determining if an expression is a
+ * compile-time const.  With MSVC using C11 and above, we can use a trick with
+ * _Generic to make this work.  We don't define this macro to return 0 when
+ * unsupported due to the risk of users of the macro misbehaving if we return
+ * 0 when the expression *is* a built-in constant.  Callers may check if this
+ * macro is defined by checking if HAVE_PG_BUILTIN_CONSTANT is defined.
+ */
+#if defined(HAVE__BUILTIN_CONSTANT_P)
+#define pg_builtin_constant(x) __builtin_constant_p(x)
+#define HAVE_PG_BUILTIN_CONSTANT
+#elif defined(_MSC_VER) && defined(__STDC_VERSION__) && __STDC_VERSION__ >= 201112L
+#define pg_builtin_constant(x) \
+	_Generic((1 ? ((void *) ((x) * (uintptr_t) 0)) : &(int) {1}), int *: 1, void *: 0)
+#define HAVE_PG_BUILTIN_CONSTANT
+#endif
+
 /*
  * pg_assume(expr) states that we assume `expr` to evaluate to true. In assert
  * enabled builds pg_assume() is turned into an assertion, in optimized builds
diff --git a/src/include/utils/elog.h b/src/include/utils/elog.h
index 675f4f5f469..16f2a4f39b1 100644
--- a/src/include/utils/elog.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/elog.h
@@ -119,11 +119,11 @@ struct Node;
  * ereport_domain() directly, or preferably they can override the TEXTDOMAIN
  * macro.
  *
- * When __builtin_constant_p is available and elevel >= ERROR we make a call
+ * When pg_builtin_constant is available and elevel >= ERROR we make a call
  * to errstart_cold() instead of errstart().  This version of the function is
  * marked with pg_attribute_cold which will coax supporting compilers into
  * generating code which is more optimized towards non-ERROR cases.  Because
- * we use __builtin_constant_p() in the condition, when elevel is not a
+ * we use pg_builtin_constant() in the condition, when elevel is not a
  * compile-time constant, or if it is, but it's < ERROR, the compiler has no
  * need to generate any code for this branch.  It can simply call errstart()
  * unconditionally.
@@ -131,24 +131,24 @@ struct Node;
  * If elevel >= ERROR, the call will not return; we try to inform the compiler
  * of that via pg_unreachable().  However, no useful optimization effect is
  * obtained unless the compiler sees elevel as a compile-time constant, else
- * we're just adding code bloat.  So, if __builtin_constant_p is available,
+ * we're just adding code bloat.  So, if pg_builtin_constant is available,
  * use that to cause the second if() to vanish completely for non-constant
  * cases.  We avoid using a local variable because it's not necessary and
  * prevents gcc from making the unreachability deduction at optlevel -O0.
  *----------
  */
-#ifdef HAVE__BUILTIN_CONSTANT_P
+#ifdef HAVE_PG_BUILTIN_CONSTANT
 #define ereport_domain(elevel, domain, ...)	\
 	do { \
 		pg_prevent_errno_in_scope(); \
-		if (__builtin_constant_p(elevel) && (elevel) >= ERROR ? \
+		if (pg_builtin_constant(elevel) && (elevel) >= ERROR ? \
 			errstart_cold(elevel, domain) : \
 			errstart(elevel, domain)) \
 			__VA_ARGS__, errfinish(__FILE__, __LINE__, __func__); \
-		if (__builtin_constant_p(elevel) && (elevel) >= ERROR) \
+		if (pg_builtin_constant(elevel) && (elevel) >= ERROR) \
 			pg_unreachable(); \
 	} while(0)
-#else							/* !HAVE__BUILTIN_CONSTANT_P */
+#else							/* !HAVE_PG_BUILTIN_CONSTANT */
 #define ereport_domain(elevel, domain, ...)	\
 	do { \
 		const int elevel_ = (elevel); \
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ struct Node;
 		if (elevel_ >= ERROR) \
 			pg_unreachable(); \
 	} while(0)
-#endif							/* HAVE__BUILTIN_CONSTANT_P */
+#endif							/* HAVE_PG_BUILTIN_CONSTANT */
 
 #define ereport(elevel, ...)	\
 	ereport_domain(elevel, TEXTDOMAIN, __VA_ARGS__)
-- 
2.40.1.windows.1

