Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>>
>>> Can we just disable const checking for MSVCC in general without using the
>>> #pragmas? It clearly doesn't understand how const works making that warning
>>> from it useless.
>>>
>> +1 ... any useful warning of this kind will be had from other compilers.
>>
>
> Sure, there are a couple of places we can do it:
> 1) We can add the pragma at the top of the file, which will turn it off
> for that file, but keep it for other files.
> 2) We can turn it off on a per-project basis, meaning we turn it off for
> the entire backend and the entire psql, but not for other EXEs and DLLs.
> 3) We can just turn it off for everything
>
> Note that it'll of course turn off the warning in *all* cases, not just
> the "free const chra **"-one.
>
> Which way would be preferred?
>
>
>
Since it's apparently useless anyway, I vote for everywhere.
cheers
andrew
