Re: gcc -Wclobbered in PostgresMain

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Sergey Shinderuk <s(dot)shinderuk(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: gcc -Wclobbered in PostgresMain
Date: 2023-07-10 16:17:19
Message-ID: 2231130.1689005839@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Sergey Shinderuk <s(dot)shinderuk(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> writes:
> On 08.07.2023 18:11, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Having done that, it wouldn't really be necessary to mark these
>> as volatile. I kept that marking anyway for consistency with
>> send_ready_for_query, but perhaps we shouldn't?

> I don't know. Maybe marking them volatile is more future proof. Not sure.

Yeah, after sleeping on it, it seems best to have a policy that all
variables declared in that place are volatile. Even if there's no bug
now, not having volatile creates a risk of surprising behavior after
future changes. Pushed that way.

regards, tom lane

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