Re: writing backend extensions using Visual Studio - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-win32

From Greg Landrum
Subject Re: writing backend extensions using Visual Studio
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Msg-id 60825b0f05032607584c245e3a@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: writing backend extensions using Visual Studio  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: writing backend extensions using Visual  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:57:07 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Greg Landrum <greg.landrum@gmail.com> writes:
> > After playing around for a while, I managed to get a DLL to build and
> > work at least far enough that I can CREATE and call the functions from
> > psql.  However, it looks like every argument I pass into the functions
> > comes in as null (e.g. PG_ARGISNULL returns true). This clearly is
> > less than helpful. :-)
>
> Sounds like MSVC is interpreting the layout of the FunctionCallInfo
> struct differently than the MinGW compiler did.  You should probably
> look into whether there are "pragma pack" directives lurking in your
> program.  ("pragma pack" is evil...)

I've got the library stripped down to the bare minimum (just a couple
of demo functions) and I can't seem to find any uses of pragma pack,
so I don't think that's it.

-greg

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