Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Suppress Clang 3.9 warnings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Suppress Clang 3.9 warnings
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Msg-id 2872.1489589835@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Suppress Clang 3.9 warnings  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Suppress Clang 3.9 warnings  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
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Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 06:35:53PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
>> + * Unfortunately in case of strlcat and strlcpy we can't trust tests
>> + * executed by Autotools if Clang > 3.6 is used.

> This is wrong on platforms that do have strlcpy() in libc.

Didn't you submit a patch to upstream autoconf awhile ago to fix the
AC_CHECK_DECLS test for this?  Seems like the correct solution is to
absorb that fix, either by updating to a newer autoconf release or by
carrying our own version of AC_CHECK_DECLS until they come out with one.
        regards, tom lane



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