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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Richard Guo <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Erroneous -Werror=missing-braces on old GCC
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:57:33 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMbWs48GzM-Ff7vr=_CeqaXxFBB9UntqtaW1cjU8hOo62AbOOg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAMbWs48GzM-Ff7vr=_CeqaXxFBB9UntqtaW1cjU8hOo62AbOOg@mail.gmail.com>

Richard Guo <[email protected]> writes:
> I came across the 'missing braces' warning again when building master
> (0a93f803f4) on old GCC (4.8.5).

On the one hand, it's probably pointless to worry about buggy
warnings from ancient compilers ...

> This has popped up a few times in the past, and it seems to be GCC bug
> 53119.  We previously used the {{...}} approach to suppress it.  Should
> we do the same here, like attached?
> FWIW, in the same file we initialize BlockRefTableSerializedEntry
> variables also with {{0}}.

... but there is a lot to be said for maintaining stylistic consistency.
Given that we're doing it this way elsewhere, we should do it in these
spots too.

			regards, tom lane






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