Re: seg regression failures - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: seg regression failures
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Msg-id 12987.1174675587@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: seg regression failures  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: seg regression failures  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> The SEG parameters going into seg_overlap() look perfectly correct, and
> seg_overlap() actually returns 0. But this is somehow later turned into
> 't'. Any pointers for where to look for how that happens?

I'll betcha that MSVC is generating code that only sets the low-order
byte of the return register (EAX likely) where GCC tends to set the
whole register.  So when the returned value is taken as a Datum, it
might contain some garbage.

Seems like we need to either reconsider the definition of DatumGetBool,
or decree that old-style functions returning bool are broken.

I'm a bit surprised this hasn't come up before, actually, since it seems
like it could happen on a lot of architectures.  Fixing DatumGetBool is
probably the right thing to do.

-#define DatumGetBool(X) ((bool) (((Datum) (X)) != 0))
+#define DatumGetBool(X) ((bool) (((bool) (X)) != 0))

            regards, tom lane

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