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Fix detection of the result type of strerror_r().

The method we've traditionally used, of redeclaring strerror_r() to
see if the compiler complains of inconsistent declarations, turns out
not to work reliably because some compilers only report a warning,
not an error.  Amazingly, this has gone undetected for years, even
though it certainly breaks our detection of whether strerror_r
succeeded.

Let's instead test whether the compiler will take the result of
strerror_r() as a switch() argument.  It's possible this won't
work universally either, but it's the best idea I could come up with
on the spur of the moment.

Back-patch of commit 751f532b9.  Buildfarm results indicate that only
icc-on-Linux actually has an issue here; perhaps the lack of field
reports indicates that people don't build PG for production that way.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10877.1537993279@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane
2018-09-30 16:24:56 -04:00
parent 8256d7ae9e
commit 0aa1e0ef16
4 changed files with 15 additions and 17 deletions

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@ -8985,12 +8985,10 @@ else
int
main ()
{
#ifndef _AIX
int strerror_r(int, char *, size_t);
#else
/* Older AIX has 'int' for the third argument so we don't test the args. */
int strerror_r();
#endif
char buf[100];
switch (strerror_r(1, buf, sizeof(buf)))
{ case 0: break; default: break; }
;
return 0;
}