Received: from magus.postgresql.org (magus.postgresql.org [87.238.57.229]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5986F1E3525D for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:09:16 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]) by magus.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SpQdO-0006ns-8F for pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:09:15 +0000 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2012 21:09:01 -0000 Received: from a88-115-214-103.elisa-laajakaista.fi (EHLO [10.0.0.103]) [88.115.214.103] by mail.gmx.net (mp032) with SMTP; 12 Jul 2012 23:09:01 +0200 X-Authenticated: #495269 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/xsrgIcEfx5gK/BKK86ztIk1No+AiyF16UXV/OfC 2IJPfhLs05VgC6 Message-ID: <1342127339.19702.12.camel@vanquo.pezone.net> Subject: Re: compiler warnings on the buildfarm From: Peter Eisentraut To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner Cc: PostgreSQL-development Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:08:59 +0300 In-Reply-To: <4FF08312.90202@kaltenbrunner.cc> References: <4FF08312.90202@kaltenbrunner.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.3-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Archive-Number: 201207/569 X-Sequence-Number: 211252 On sön, 2012-07-01 at 19:04 +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > seeing some of the latest commits about fixing compiler warnings I > took a look at the buildfarm to see if there are any interesting ones > there (in total we have a thousends of warnings on the buildfarm but > most of those are from very noisy compilers). > > so in case anybody is interested those are a selection of the ones > that at least look somewhat interesting(duplicates mostly removed, > windows ignored): Many of these come from ancient compilers, and from minor versions that are not even the latest for that ancient major release. They're mostly not worth worrying about, because evidently the compiler developers later improved the compilers to not warn about these cases anymore.