Re: clang's -Wmissing-variable-declarations shows some shoddy programming - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: clang's -Wmissing-variable-declarations shows some shoddy programming
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Msg-id 20131219211031.GE1690@momjian.us
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In response to Re: clang's -Wmissing-variable-declarations shows some shoddy programming  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:11:03PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 04:52:28PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Compiling postgres with said option in CFLAGS really gives an astounding
> > number of warnings. Except some bison/flex generated ones, none of them
> > looks acceptable to me.
> > Most are just file local variables with a missing static and easy to
> > fix. Several other are actually shared variables, where people simply
> > haven't bothered to add the variable to a header. Some of them with
> > comments declaring that fact, others adding longer comments, even others
> > adding longer comments about that fact.
> > 
> > I've attached the output of such a compilation run for those without
> > clang.
> 
> Now that pg_upgrade has stabilized, I think it is time to centralize all
> the pg_upgrade_support control variables in a single C include file that
> can be used by the backend and by pg_upgrade_support.  This will
> eliminate the compiler warnings too.
> 
> The attached patch accomplishes this.

Patch applied.

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