Re: CVS HEAD compile failure - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: CVS HEAD compile failure
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Msg-id 18920.1070903959@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: CVS HEAD compile failure  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> Syntax errors in known good code, especially header files are a typical
> symptom of missing typedefs. A good thing to know to recognize right away or
> else you'll spend lots of time puzzling over seemingly good code.

Actually it turns out the error was the other way round: a name that the
code did not expect to be a typedef was being taken as one.  But yeah,
"impossible" syntax errors in C code are often a symptom of typedef
trouble.
        regards, tom lane


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