On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 4:56 AM, Christian Ullrich <ch...@chrullrich.net> wrote: > * From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:and...@dunslane.net] > >> 4. The compiler complains about one of Microsoft's own header files - >> essentially it dislikes the=is construct: >> >> typedef enum { ... }; >> >> It would be nice to make it shut up about it. > > I doubt that's possible; the declaration *is* wrong after all. We could turn > off the warning: > > #pragma warning(push) > #pragma warning(disable : 1234, or whatever the number is) > #include <whatever.h> > #pragma warning(pop)
Well, yes.. Even if that's not pretty that would not be the first one caused by a VS header bug (float.c).. >> 5. It also complains about us casting a pid_t to a HANDLE in >> pg_basebackup.c. Not sure what to do about that. > > The thing that's being cast is not a PID, but a HANDLE to a process. pid_t is > a typedef for int (in port/win32.h), therefore is always 32 bits, while > HANDLE is actually void*. However, Microsoft guarantees that kernel32 HANDLEs > (this includes those to threads and processes) fit into 32 bits on AMD64. > > Source: > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee872017(v=vs.85).aspx, > third bullet point. > > So we can simply silence the warning by casting explicitly. Yes, when casting things this way I think that a comment would be fine in the code. We could do that as separate patches actually. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers