Re: gcc -Wclobbered in PostgresMain

Sergey Shinderuk <s.shinderuk@postgrespro.ru>

From: Sergey Shinderuk <s.shinderuk@postgrespro.ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-07-10T09:39:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hello, Tom,


On 08.07.2023 18:11, Tom Lane wrote:
> What we ought to be doing is resetting these two flags
> after the disable_all_timeouts call.


Oops, I missed that.


> Having done that, it wouldn't really be necessary to mark these
> as volatile.  I kept that marking anyway for consistency with
> send_ready_for_query, but perhaps we shouldn't?


I don't know. Maybe marking them volatile is more future proof. Not sure.


>> I also moved firstchar's declaration inside the loop where it's used, to
>> make it clear that this variable needn't be volatile and is not
>> preserved after longjmp().
> 
> Good idea, but then why not the same for input_message?  It's fully
> reinitialized each time through the loop, too.


Yeah, that's better.


> In short, something like the attached, except I'm not totally sold
> on changing the volatility of the timeout flags.

Looks good to me.


Thank you.

-- 
Sergey Shinderuk		https://postgrespro.com/




Commits

  1. Be more rigorous about local variables in PostgresMain().