Re: More weird compiler warnings

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2022-03-26 13:55:49 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 2022-03-26 16:23:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> but I'm wondering if we could silence the warning by changing the loop condition to
>>> while (--nb >= 0)
>>> which seems like it might be marginally more readable anyway.

>> Yes, that looks like it silences it. I modified the small reproducer I had in
>> that bug (https://godbolt.org/z/ejK9h6von) and the warning vanishes.

> The recent discussion about warnings reminded me of this. Given the gcc bug
> hasn't been fixed, I think we should make that change. I'd vote for
> backpatching it as well - what do you think?

+1, can't hurt anything AFAICS.

regards, tom lane