Re: new compiler warnings

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: new compiler warnings
Date: 2011-10-18 20:01:37
Message-ID: 1318968097.850.12.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tis, 2011-10-18 at 15:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Unfortunately, whether Tom's right or not, we still don't have a
> > solution to the compiler warning.
>
> I don't actually see that warning on my Fedora 15 machine, with
> gcc version 4.6.1 20110908 (Red Hat 4.6.1-9) (GCC)
>
> What are the people who do see it using?
>
> (I do see the -Waddress ones.)
>
> regards, tom lane
>

You get the "unused return value" warnings with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2,
which has been the default on Ubuntu for years, and has been the default
on Debian for a few weeks (if you have the hardening-wrapper package
installed or running under dpkg-buildpackage).

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