Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
> The first one is from commit 65707ed9afc (Add backtrace support for
> Windows). This would be an error in gcc (from C99 on); it's kind of
> incredible that MSVC doesn't even warn about this by default. I propose
> to add this warning category to the default set.
> (Second thought: For consistency, make this an error, with '/we4013'
> instead of '/w24013'.)
+1 for making it an error.
> The second one is from commit 13b935cd521 (Change dynahash.c and
> hsearch.h to use int64 instead of long). I don't have a patch here to
> include this in the default warning set, mainly because it doesn't
> appear to map to any gcc warning option, but maybe we should add it
> anyway, since it can catch this kind of 4-byte-long-on-Windows issue.
I think it'd be a good idea to warn even if we can't make gcc do that.
I think Windows is the only 64-bit platform we deal with where long
is just 32 bits, so covering the case in MSVC will expose bugs we
would not notice otherwise.
regards, tom lane
