From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Fix C23 compiler warning |
Date: | 2024-10-25 15:48:29 |
Message-ID: | 2779335.1729871309@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> On 2024-Oct-22, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> One thing I didn't realize until today is that currently C23 compilations
>> only work with meson. The autoconf version we are using doesn't support it,
>> and the configure results it produces are somehow faulty and then you get a
>> bunch of compilation errors. So if we wanted to make this a supported
>> thing, it looks like we would need to use at least autoconf 2.72.
> Oh wow. Should we at least update our autoconf requirement to 2.72 in
> master?
As I recall, we looked at adopting it some years ago and decided it
was too much churn for the value (seeing that the long-term plan is
to go to meson only). Maybe C23 is a reason to rethink, but from
what I recall of that, it won't be a painless update.
regards, tom lane
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