Re: 2x compile warning

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 2x compile warning
Date: 2006-04-24 21:39:30
Message-ID: 6727.1145914770@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>> Perhaps someone could check if changing the test explicitly check
>> against NULL:
>>
>> ((attnum) > (int) (tup)->t_data->t_natts) ? \
>> ( \
>> (((isnull) != NULL)? (*(isnull) = true) : (dummyret)NULL), \
>> (Datum)NULL \
>>
>> removes the warning. It seems silly for the GCC people to add warnings
>> for this kind of stuff without a simple way to bypass it...

> Yes, this coding removes the warning.

Oh, good, that seems like a reasonable change to make (it's arguably
more clear than the original anyway).

Is this the only place where the warning shows up? ISTM there's quite
a lot of code that uses "if (ptr)" for a NULL-ness check.

regards, tom lane

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