Re: GCC 8 warnings

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GCC 8 warnings
Date: 2018-04-27 16:52:37
Message-ID: bbc2fccb-c678-aa94-7ea8-95f4a1ecb743@2ndquadrant.com
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On 4/24/18 05:57, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> While building stable releases and v11 on Fedora 28, I am seeing some warnings.

Attached is a patch to fix these warnings in master. These are very
similar to the class of warnings we fixed last time around for GCC 7.

GCC 8 is now frozen, so it would be a good time to move ahead with this.

> What is the project's policy about fixing those warnings in older branches?

We did backpatch the GCC 7 changes. We could do the same here, but it's
a pretty sizeable number of changes.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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