On 2019-03-11 12:57, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Looking at recently committed 2e616dee9e60, we have introduced this: > > + volatile xmlBufferPtr buf = NULL; > + volatile xmlNodePtr cur_copy = NULL; > > where the pointer-ness nature of the object is inside the typedef. I > *suppose* that this is correct as written. There are a few occurrences > of this pattern in eg. contrib/xml2.
I think this is correct, but I don't want to wreck my sanity trying to understand the syntax-level details of why. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services