Re: compile warnings in CVS HEAD?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Kurt Roeckx <Q(at)ping(dot)be>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: compile warnings in CVS HEAD?
Date: 2003-09-15 18:09:22
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0309152007130.1051-100000@peter.localdomain
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Neil Conway writes:

> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:14, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > > tablecmds.c: In function `validateForeignKeyConstraint':
> > > > tablecmds.c:3546: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break
> > > > strict-aliasing rules
>
> So, what should we do with this?

Rumor has it that many of these warnings are bogus. But I wouldn't want
to turn them off altogether because that might hide real problems. At
this point, I think we should wait a while until the compiler becomes more
mature.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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