Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 07:53, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Alex Hunsaker wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 20:26, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> > Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> The usual solution for this kind of thing is:
>
>        #ifdef LINUX
>        #define OOM_ADJUST oom_adjust()
>        #else
>        #define OOM_ADJUST do {} while (0)
>        #endif
>
> so there is no call or dummy function and you reference it in the code
> as:

Surely any compiler worth its salt would turn a call to an empty void
function into a noop? Then again maybe I just hate macros :)