Re: bloated heapam.h

Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>> (Digging further, it seems like bufpage.h should also include transam.h
>> in order to get TransactionIdIsNormal ... I start to wonder how many
>> problems of this nature we have on our headers. Without having a way to
>> detect whether the defined macros are valid, it seems hard to check
>> programatically, however.)
>
> I attached script which should check it. In first step it runs C
> preprocessor on each header (postgres.h is included as well). The output
> from first step is processed again with preprocessor and define.h is
> included. Define.h contains "all" used macros in following format:
>
> #define SIGABRT "NOT_EXPANDED_SIGABRT"
>
> Main problem is how to generate define.h. I used following magic:
>
> grep "^#define" `find . -name "*.h"` | cut -d" " -f 2 | cut -f 1 | cut -f 1 -d"("
>
> but it generates some noise as well. Maybe some Perl or AWK magic should be better.

So were you able to detect anything bogus with this technique?

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