[Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>]

Using gcc 15.1.1 (from Fedora 42) I see these warnings that
didn't appear with older gcc:

$ src/tools/pginclude/headerscheck
In file included from /tmp/headerscheck.xp0AI5/test.c:2:
./src/common/kwlist_d.h:1163:23: warning: no previous declaration for 'ScanKeywords' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
 1163 | const ScanKeywordList ScanKeywords = {
      |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /tmp/headerscheck.xp0AI5/test.c:2:
./src/interfaces/ecpg/test/preproc/strings.h:1:13: warning: no previous declaration for 's1' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
    1 | char       *s1,
      |             ^~
./src/interfaces/ecpg/test/preproc/strings.h:2:21: warning: no previous declaration for 's2' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
    2 |                    *s2,
      |                     ^~
./src/interfaces/ecpg/test/preproc/strings.h:3:21: warning: no previous declaration for 's3' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
    3 |                    *s3,
      |                     ^~
./src/interfaces/ecpg/test/preproc/strings.h:4:21: warning: no previous declaration for 's4' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
    4 |                    *s4,
      |                     ^~
./src/interfaces/ecpg/test/preproc/strings.h:5:21: warning: no previous declaration for 's5' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
    5 |                    *s5,
      |                     ^~
./src/interfaces/ecpg/test/preproc/strings.h:6:21: warning: no previous declaration for 's6' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
    6 |                    *s6,
      |                     ^~
./src/interfaces/ecpg/test/preproc/strings.h:7:21: warning: no previous declaration for 's7' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
    7 |                    *s7,
      |                     ^~
./src/interfaces/ecpg/test/preproc/strings.h:8:21: warning: no previous declaration for 's8' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
    8 |                    *s8;
      |                     ^~

While we could possibly get away with making headerscheck ignore that
ecpg test header, it seems unwise to skip kwlist_d.h.  So I propose
the attached patch, which I've confirmed silences these warnings.

Curiously, no such complaints appear with cpluspluscheck (which is
using g++ 15.1.1).  I don't really understand why not: why would
they have turned on -Wmissing-variable-declarations by default
for C but not C++?  But anyway, since there doesn't seem to be
any C++ compatibility issue here, I think it's sufficient to fix
this in master and not back-patch.

			regards, tom lane

Attachments:

silence-Wmissing-variable-declarations.patch (text/x-diff, 2.0K) download
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/test/expected/preproc-strings.c b/src/interfaces/ecpg/test/expected/preproc-strings.c
index a26817968de..55859b624eb 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/test/expected/preproc-strings.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/test/expected/preproc-strings.c
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@
 #line 3 "strings.pgc"
 /* exec sql begin declare section */
 #line 1 "strings.h"
+/* This extern silences headerscheck warnings with some gcc versions */
+  
+		   
+		   
+		   
+		   
+		   
+		   
+		   
+
 	   
 		   
 		   
@@ -29,7 +39,10 @@
 
 #line 5 "strings.pgc"
 
-#line 1 "strings.h"
+#line 2 "strings.h"
+ extern char * s1 , * s2 , * s3 , * s4 , * s5 , * s6 , * s7 , * s8 ;
+ 
+#line 11 "strings.h"
  char * s1 , * s2 , * s3 , * s4 , * s5 , * s6 , * s7 , * s8 ;
 /* exec sql end declare section */
 #line 5 "strings.pgc"
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/test/preproc/strings.h b/src/interfaces/ecpg/test/preproc/strings.h
index edb5be5339e..71581d6f94a 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/test/preproc/strings.h
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/test/preproc/strings.h
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+/* This extern silences headerscheck warnings with some gcc versions */
+extern char *s1,
+		   *s2,
+		   *s3,
+		   *s4,
+		   *s5,
+		   *s6,
+		   *s7,
+		   *s8;
+
 char	   *s1,
 		   *s2,
 		   *s3,
diff --git a/src/tools/gen_keywordlist.pl b/src/tools/gen_keywordlist.pl
index 6ec83ff33f9..8825b4476ac 100644
--- a/src/tools/gen_keywordlist.pl
+++ b/src/tools/gen_keywordlist.pl
@@ -169,7 +169,16 @@ printf $kwdef qq|static %s\n|, $f;
 
 # Emit the struct that wraps all this lookup info into one variable.
 
-printf $kwdef "static " if !$extern;
+if ($extern)
+{
+	# This redundant extern declaration is needed to silence headerscheck
+	# warnings with some gcc versions.
+	printf $kwdef "extern const ScanKeywordList %s;\n\n", $varname;
+}
+else
+{
+	printf $kwdef "static ";
+}
 printf $kwdef "const ScanKeywordList %s = {\n", $varname;
 printf $kwdef qq|\t%s_kw_string,\n|, $varname;
 printf $kwdef qq|\t%s_kw_offsets,\n|, $varname;