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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: compiler warnings on the buildfarm
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:26:48 +0100
Message-ID: <46969C98.60207@enterprisedb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070712211918.GD22973@alvh.no-ip.org>
References: <46962BBD.5000108@kaltenbrunner.cc>
	<17428.1184249229@sss.pgh.pa.us>
	<469653BA.2040004@kaltenbrunner.cc>
	<20070712211918.GD22973@alvh.no-ip.org>

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Stefan showed me via Jabber this warning:
> 
> /tmp/ccM7MfqX.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccM7MfqX.s:703: Warning: 00000003fffffffc shortened to 00000000fffffffc
> /tmp/ccM7MfqX.s:738: Warning: 00000003fffffffc shortened to 00000000fffffffc
> 
> He says that this comes from trgm_op.c file.  I don't get the warning
> myself obviously, so I started guessing.
> 
> 3FFFFFFFC = 1111111111111111111111111111111100
>  FFFFFFFC =   11111111111111111111111111111100
> 
> So the upper 2 bits are being lost (the second number is 32 bits wide).
> 
> The only thing that I think is related is the usage of VARSIZE().  It
> looks like 0x3FFFFFFF (actual constant in the toast code) is shift two
> bits left.  I can see no such operation though.

The shift is in postgres.h, SET_VARSIZE_4B. I have no idea where that 
warning is coming from, though. What's the real source behind "ccM7MfqX.s"?

-- 
   Heikki Linnakangas
   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com



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