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From Andres Freund
Subject pgsql: perl: Hide warnings inside perl.h when using gcc compatible comp
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Msg-id E1pCVzh-001lFV-Gy@gemulon.postgresql.org
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perl: Hide warnings inside perl.h when using gcc compatible compiler

New versions of perl trigger warnings within perl.h with our compiler
flags. At least -Wdeclaration-after-statement, -Wshadow=compatible-local are
known to be problematic.

To avoid these warnings, conditionally use #pragma GCC system_header before
including plperl.h.

Alternatively, we could add the include paths for problematic headers with
-isystem, but that is a larger hammer and is harder to search for.

A more granular alternative would be to use #pragma GCC diagnostic
push/ignored/pop, but gcc warns about unknown warnings being ignored, so every
to-be-ignored-temporarily compiler warning would require its own pg_config.h
symbol and #ifdef.

As the warnings are voluminous, it makes sense to backpatch this change. But
don't do so yet, we first want gather buildfarm coverage - it's e.g. possible
that some compiler claiming to be gcc compatible has issues with the pragma.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221228182455.hfdwd22zztvkojy2@awork3.anarazel.de

Branch
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REL_12_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f0e13802f196bc1044d52669ae5ef0b32e3a4db2

Modified Files
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src/include/c.h        | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/pl/plperl/plperl.h |  9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 37 insertions(+)


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