Re: Things I learned about PG8 on AIX5.3 with XLC compiler - Mailing list pgsql-general

Mohan, Ross wrote:
> 1) Many (many!) uninitialized variables in code. Optimizers don't
>     do well with this.

Um, what?

> 2) Not clear (to me, a nonprogrammer) whether this is GNU C, ANSI C,
>     "Postgres" C, or what the overall coding protocol is.

Postgres is mostly ANSI C89, with limited use of GNU C extensions (which
should be limited to inside #ifdef __GNUC__ blocks, AFAIK).

-Neil