Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add configure infrastructure to detectsupport for C99's restric - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add configure infrastructure to detectsupport for C99's restric
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Msg-id 20171012174544.53kwdeyrt4id7hgg@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add configure infrastructure to detect support for C99's restric  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add configure infrastructure to detect support for C99's restric  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2017-10-12 11:30:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > I've temporarily silenced that error by moving the stdlib.h include
> > before the definition of restrict, but that seems fairly fragile. I
> > primarily wanted to see whether there's other problems.  At least thrips
> > is is now happy.
> 
> > I see a number of options to continue:
> > - only define restrict on msvc 2013+ - for some reason woodlouse didn't
> >   complain about this problem, but I'm very doubtful that that's
> >   actually reliable.
> > - rename restrict to pg_restrict. That's annoying because we'd have to
> >   copy the autoconf test.
> > - live with the hack of including stdlib.h early, in pg_config.h.win32.
> > - $better_idea
> 
> I don't actually see why you need a #define at all --- "restrict" is the
> standard spelling of the keyword no?

It is, but a lot of compilers name it differently, e.g. __restrict in
the case of msvc.


> I really do not like the stdlib.h hack: that amounts to assuming that
> only stdlib.h does or ever will contain declspec(restrict).  Maybe
> you could get away with that if you were applying it only to long-dead
> MSVC versions, but doing it "#if (_MSC_VER >= 1500)" is clearly going
> to break someday.

Yea, I dislike it quite a bit too. Unfortunately not even defining
restrict to empty as if it were unsupported looks viable to me :(

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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