Tom Lane wrote: > Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What is the official stance on handling compiler warnings? > > The compilers I use give me 1 or 2 warnings on HEAD, coming from flex's > sloppiness about not generating unused code. I wouldn't care to work > with a compiler that generated more than a few. At the same time, > I'm not prepared to contort the source code unduly to suppress what > you referred to as "spam" warnings from over-chatty compilers. > > What would probably be useful if you want to pursue this is to filter > out the obvious spam like statement-not-reached, and see what's left.
ok I did that for a few members (removing all the statement not reached ones as well as some purely informal notices and all the flex related warnings) and came up with something similiar to: animal: eel warnings: 4 dirmod.c:206: warning: no previous prototype for 'pgsymlink' dirmod.c:206: warning: no previous prototype for 'pgsymlink' pg_ctl.c: In function `pgwin32_doRunAsService': pg_ctl.c:1240: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type animal: clownfish warnings: 12 "dynloader.c", line 4: warning: empty translation unit "postgres.c", line 3758: warning: loop not entered at top "xml.c", line 2810: warning: integer overflow detected: op "<<" "xml.c", line 2810: warning: integer overflow detected: op "UNARY -" "xml.c", line 2810: warning: integer overflow detected: op "<<" "dfmgr.c", line 117: warning: assignment type mismatch: pointer to function(pointer to struct FunctionCallInfoData {pointer to struct FmgrInfo {..} flinfo, pointer to struct Node {..} context, pointer to struc t Node {..} resultinfo, char isnull, short nargs, array[100] of unsigned long arg, array[100] of char argnull}) returning unsigned long "=" pointer to void "dfmgr.c", line 165: warning: return value type mismatch "wchar.c", line 283: warning: integer overflow detected: op "<<" "wchar.c", line 283: warning: integer overflow detected: op "<<" "pg_resetxlog.c", line 76: warning: initializer does not fit or is out of range: -1 "pg_resetxlog.c", line 80: warning: initializer does not fit or is out of range: -1 animal: jackal warnings: 2 postmaster.c: In function 'PostmasterMain': postmaster.c:796: warning: 'DNSServiceRegistrationCreate' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/DNSServiceDiscovery/DNSServiceDiscovery.h:114) animal: impala warnings: 6 auth.c: In function 'pg_GSS_recvauth': auth.c:435: warning: format '%u' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t' auth.c:456: warning: format '%u' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'size_t' auth.c:464: warning: format '%u' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t' auth.c: In function 'sendAuthRequest': auth.c:787: warning: format '%u' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t' animal: grebe warnings: 45 xlog.c: In function 'XLogInsert': xlog.c:651: warning: implicit declaration of function '_check_lock' xlog.c:654: warning: implicit declaration of function '_clear_lock' hba.c: In function 'ident_unix': hba.c:1449: warning: implicit declaration of function 'getpeereid' ip.c: In function 'getaddrinfo_unix': ip.c:254: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type bgwriter.c: In function 'BackgroundWriterMain': bgwriter.c:305: warning: implicit declaration of function '_check_lock' bgwriter.c:308: warning: implicit declaration of function '_clear_lock' buf_init.c: In function 'InitBufferPool': buf_init.c:118: warning: implicit declaration of function '_clear_lock' bufmgr.c: In function 'ReadBuffer_common': bufmgr.c:249: warning: implicit declaration of function '_check_lock' bufmgr.c:252: warning: implicit declaration of function '_clear_lock' freelist.c: In function 'StrategyGetBuffer': freelist.c:143: warning: implicit declaration of function '_check_lock' freelist.c:150: warning: implicit declaration of function '_clear_lock' shmem.c: In function 'InitShmemAllocation': shmem.c:127: warning: implicit declaration of function '_clear_lock' shmem.c: In function 'ShmemAlloc': shmem.c:168: warning: implicit declaration of function '_check_lock' proc.c: In function 'InitProcGlobal': proc.c:216: warning: implicit declaration of function '_clear_lock' proc.c: In function 'InitProcess': proc.c:247: warning: implicit declaration of function '_check_lock' lwlock.c: In function 'CreateLWLocks': lwlock.c:256: warning: implicit declaration of function '_clear_lock' lwlock.c: In function 'LWLockAssign': lwlock.c:291: warning: implicit declaration of function '_check_lock' s_lock.c: In function 's_lock': s_lock.c:99: warning: implicit declaration of function '_check_lock' dynahash.c: In function 'init_htab': dynahash.c:526: warning: implicit declaration of function '_clear_lock' dynahash.c: In function 'hash_search_with_hash_value': dynahash.c:876: warning: implicit declaration of function '_check_lock' guc.c:2866: warning: 'guc_get_index' defined but not used Extra instructions are being generated for each reference to a TOC symbol if the symbol is in the TOC overflow area. ip.c: In function 'getaddrinfo_unix': ip.c:254: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type connect.c:23: warning: missing braces around initializer connect.c:23: warning: (near initialization for 'actual_connection_key_once.__on_word') misc.c:67: warning: missing braces around initializer misc.c:67: warning: (near initialization for 'sqlca_key_once.__on_word') is that enough reduction in noise to make it useful ? 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