Hi,
On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 09:44:45AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 09.03.26 08:57, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 07:36:20PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > On 27.02.26 07:45, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 02:04:30PM +0800, Chao Li wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > What I'm interested in is the broader policy: when reviewing patches,
> > > > > if we encounter a foo() declaration, should we consistently request a change to foo(void)?
> > > > > If yes, the standard should be documented somewhere.
> > > >
> > > > I think that they should be consistently fixed for the reasons mentioned in
> > > > [1], and that the best way to achieve this goal would be to enable -Wstrict-prototypes
> > > > by default ([2]).
> > >
> > > Yes, why not add -Wstrict-prototypes and perhaps -Wold-style-definition to
> > > the standard warnings. Then we don't have to keep chasing these manually.
> >
> > Yeah, I'll look at adding those.
>
> I played with this a little bit. A problem I found is that the generated
> configure code itself generates its test programs with 'main()', and so with
> these warnings, many of these tests will fail. So you'd need to create some
> different arrangement where you test for the warnings but only add the flags
> at the end of configure.
>
> But also, my research indicates that -Wstrict-prototypes and
> -Wold-style-definition are available in all supported gcc and clang
> versions, so maybe you could avoid this problem by not testing for them and
> just unconditionally adding them at the end.
Yeah, I did observe the same. I moved the new flags late enough in configure.ac
to avoid any error (for example, PGAC_PRINTF_ARCHETYPE which uses -Werror and
would fail to detect gnu_printf if -Wstrict-prototypes is active) leading to the
mingw_cross_warning CI task failing.
I just shared the patch in a dedicated thread [1].
[1]: https://postgr.es/m/aa73q1aT0A3/vke/@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
Regards,
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Bertrand Drouvot
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