Re: [PATCH] Suppress Clang 3.9 warnings

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2017-02-20T14:26:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru> writes:
> I've just tried to build PostgreSQL with Clang 3.9.1 (default version
> currently available in Arch Linux) and noticed that it outputs lots of
> warning messages. Most of them are result of a bug in Clang itself:
> 
> postinit.c:846:3: note: include the header <string.h> or explicitly
> provide a declaration for 'strlcpy'

It might be an incompatibility with the platform-supplied string.h
rather than an outright bug, but yeah, that's pretty annoying.

> The rest of warnings looks more like something we could easily deal with:

It's hard to get excited about these if there are going to be hundreds
of the other ones ...

			regards, tom lane


Commits

  1. Suppress implicit-conversion warnings seen with newer clang versions.