On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> What's a bit odd about this is that I do get warnings for this kind of >> thing in general, which get turned into errors since I compile with >> -Werror; and in fact the version of the patch that I committed has no >> fewer than four places where there is a comment that says "placate >> compiler". But for some reason the compiler I used to develop this >> patch (gcc-4.2.1 i686-apple-darwin10) did not complain about this >> case, for reasons that are not quite clear to me. > > gcc has been able to detect possibly-uninitialized scalar variables > for many years, but only fairly-recent versions seem to apply the > same type of logic to fields of local structs.
I thought it might be something like that. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
