Re: compiler warning in pgcrypto imath.c

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-05-01T16:18:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi Noah,

On 2019-03-23 00:02:36 -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:20:16AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 08:20:53PM -0400, Jeff Janes wrote:
> > > PostgreSQL 12devel on aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc
> > > (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0, 64-bit
> > 
> > Adding Noah in CC as he has done the update of imath lately.
> > 
> > > The attached patch adds PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY to silence it.  Perhaps
> > > there is a better way, given that we want to change imath.c as little as
> > > possible from its upstream?
> > 
> > Maybe others have better ideas, but marking the variable with
> > PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY as you propose seems like the least invasive
> > method of all.
> 
> That patch looks good.  Thanks.  The main alternative would be to pass
> -Wno-unused for this file.  Since you're proposing only one instance
> PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY, I favor PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY over -Wno-unused.

This is marked as an open item, owned by you. Could you commit the
patch or otherwise resovle the issue?

Greetings,

Andres Freund



Commits

  1. Suppress compiler warning in non-SSL, non-assert builds.