Re: Enable -Wstrict-prototypes and -Wold-style-definition by default

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 01:03:03PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> writes:
> > I got this warning while running headerscheck after this commit:

Thanks for the report!

> > ~/Desktop/projects/postgres/src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/ecpglib_extern.h:221:40:
> > warning: function declaration isn’t a prototype [-Wstrict-prototypes]
> >   221 | void            ecpg_init_sqlca(struct sqlca_t *sqlca)
> 
> Yeah, I see that too.  I believe the problem is that headerscheck
> doesn't cause POSTGRES_ECPG_INTERNAL to become defined, so that
> what the compiler is seeing is (from sqlca.h):
> 
> 	#ifndef POSTGRES_ECPG_INTERNAL
> 	#define sqlca (*ECPGget_sqlca())
> 	#endif
> 
> and then
> 
> 	void		ecpg_init_sqlca(struct sqlca_t *sqlca);

Oh right, confirmed with:

"
$ gcc -E -I src/interfaces/ecpg/include -I src/include -I src/interfaces/libpq \ 
    -include src/include/postgres_fe.h src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/ecpglib_extern.h \
     | grep ECPGget_sqlca

$ struct sqlca_t *ECPGget_sqlca(void);
$ void ecpg_init_sqlca(struct sqlca_t *(*ECPGget_sqlca()));
"
> Kinda surprising that that's not a syntax error.

Yeah...

> We could plausibly fix this either by
> 
> (1) renaming ecpg_init_sqlca's parameter to something else;
> 
> (2) ensuring that POSTGRES_ECPG_INTERNAL is defined.  I'd be inclined
> to make ecpglib_extern.h do that rather than expecting headerscheck
> to know about it.
> 
> Neither of these options are beautiful, but perhaps #1 is slightly
> less ugly.  Any preferences?

I'd vote for #1 too, done in the attached.

Regards,

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