Tom Lane wrote:
> Actually, on looking closer, it's more likely got something to do with
> whether or not you used --enable-cassert. If the Assert at the top of
> the function is disabled, then IMO a compiler that failed to complain
> about this coding would be pretty damn broken.
I tried removing the Assert, and my compiler doesn't complain. I
noticed that the function is static and the only caller has its own
assert about ntapes; yet removing that one doesn't cause a warning
either. I made the function non-static -- still no warning.
gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18) 6.3.0 20170516
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