Re: perl 5.36, C99, -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wshadow=compatible-local

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Date: 2022-11-03T00:03:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2022-11-02 19:57:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2022-11-01 17:00:27 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Python has the same issues.  There are a few other Python-embedding projects
> >> that use -Wdeclaration-after-statement and complain if the Python headers
> >> violate it.  But it's getting tedious.  -isystem would be a better solution.
> 
> > Which dependencies should we convert to -isystem?
> 
> Color me confused about what's being discussed here.  I see nothing
> in the gcc manual suggesting that -isystem has any effect on warning
> levels?

It's only indirectly explained :(

           The -isystem and -idirafter options also mark the directory as a system directory, so that it gets the same special treatment that is applied to
           the standard system directories.

and then https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/System-Headers.html

Greetings,

Andres Freund



Commits

  1. perl: Hide warnings inside perl.h when using gcc compatible compiler