Re: compile warnings in CVS HEAD? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Patrick Welche
Subject Re: compile warnings in CVS HEAD?
Date
Msg-id 20030915195543.A5990@quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk
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In response to Re: compile warnings in CVS HEAD?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:09:22PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Neil Conway writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:14, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > > > tablecmds.c: In function `validateForeignKeyConstraint':
> > > > > tablecmds.c:3546: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break
> > > > > strict-aliasing rules
> >
> > So, what should we do with this?
> 
> Rumor has it that many of these warnings are bogus.  But I wouldn't want
> to turn them off altogether because that might hide real problems.  At
> this point, I think we should wait a while until the compiler becomes more
> mature.

Bother - I'm just upgrading from 2.95.3 to 3.3.1 as this will be default
on NetBSD :/

Patrick


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