Re: Things I learned about PG8 on AIX5.3 with XLC compiler

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: "Mohan, Ross" <RMohan(at)arbinet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Things I learned about PG8 on AIX5.3 with XLC compiler
Date: 2005-06-08 00:09:28
Message-ID: 42A63738.40806@samurai.com
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Mohan, Ross wrote:
> 1) Many (many!) uninitialized variables in code. Optimizers don't
> do well with this.

Um, what?

> 2) Not clear (to me, a nonprogrammer) whether this is GNU C, ANSI C,
> "Postgres" C, or what the overall coding protocol is.

Postgres is mostly ANSI C89, with limited use of GNU C extensions (which
should be limited to inside #ifdef __GNUC__ blocks, AFAIK).

-Neil

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