Re: longjmp clobber warnings are utterly broken in modern gcc

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: longjmp clobber warnings are utterly broken in modern gcc
Date: 2015-01-26 11:09:31
Message-ID: 20150126110931.GC9916@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-01-25 15:40:10 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> > Perhaps Clang has a more useful warning?
>
> Clang, at least the version on my Mac, doesn't warn either with the
> settings we normally use, and it doesn't have -Wclobber at all.
> I tried turning on -Weverything, and it still didn't complain.
> (It did generate incorrect code though, so it's no better than gcc
> in that respect.)

Even a pretty recent (3.6-rc1) clang doesn't warn. It generates lots of
useful warnings, but nothing about longjmp clobbers.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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