Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> The script certainly has no way to know it is missing an extern, and I > >> am not sure how I would even teach it that trick. > > > It would be easy if the compiler were to have an option to throw a > > warning when it finds a non-static variable that doesn't have a > > corresponding extern declaration. > > Yeah, I think this is hopeless (or at least not worth the cost) without > compiler support --- I was just idly wondering if newer gcc's might have > such an option. > > The case at hand is actually somewhat improbable, because it requires > having a header file that exports a variable but not any of the file's > functions. So maybe it's not worth worrying about anyway.
The only thing I could come up with was to look at the symbols exported by the object files. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
