On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: >>> E.g. if you include stdbool.h [ ginStepRight breaks ] > >> Ah-ha. OK, now I get it. So then I agree we should back-patch this >> at least as far as 9.3 where MSVC 2013 became a supported platform, > > Um, no, that does not follow. The unanswered question here is why, > when we *have not* included stdbool.h and *have* typedef'd bool as > just plain "char", we would get C99 bool behavior. There is something > happening there that should not be happening, and I'm not really satisfied > with the explanation "Microsoft is brain-dead as usual". I think we > should dig deeper, because whatever is going on there may have deeper > effects than we now realize.
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d2106c2d-0f46-4cf9-af27-54f81ef6e...@postgrespro.ru seems to explain what happens pretty clearly. We #include something which #includes something which #includes something which #includes <stdbool.h>. It's not that surprising, is it? I mean, things with "std" in the name figure to be commonly-included. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
