Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>> Can we just disable const checking for MSVCC in general without using the
>>>> #pragmas? It clearly doesn't understand how const works making that warning
>>>> from it useless.
>>> +1 ... any useful warning of this kind will be had from other compilers.
>
>> Sure, there are a couple of places we can do it:
>> 1) We can add the pragma at the top of the file, which will turn it off
>> for that file, but keep it for other files.
>> 2) We can turn it off on a per-project basis, meaning we turn it off for
>> the entire backend and the entire psql, but not for other EXEs and DLLs.
>> 3) We can just turn it off for everything
>
>> Note that it'll of course turn off the warning in *all* cases, not just
>> the "free const chra **"-one.
>
>> Which way would be preferred?
>
> Turning it off globally is what I had in mind, and I assume Greg too.
> The point is that if MSVC gets this case wrong, then it probably gets
> many other cases wrong, and we shouldn't have to work around them one
> at a time.
ok. I'll do it globally when I'm back at a box where I can rebuild the
thing fast enough not to get bored :-) Meaning tomorrow.
//Magnus
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