Re: [HACKERS] PL compile warning messages

>     I get them too and don't know exactly what they mean. I think
>     gcc is just  telling  that  after  returning  to  the  setjmp
>     location  via  longjmp  the  variable  might not contain what
>     there was before (the longjmp  mechanism  only  restores  the
>     stack pointers, not the variable contents on the stack).
>
>     But  the  longjmp's  are  there  only  to  clean up the Tcl's
>     interpreter  nesting  and  allocations  in  the  case  of  an
>     elog(ERROR) before really jumping back into the postgres main
>     loop. Tcl doesn't allocate via  palloc,  so  there  would  be
>     memory  allocations  never  free'd  otherwise.  The mentioned
>     variables aren't accessed after the longjumping session began
>     (it's  really a longjmp party if Tcl triggers use in turn Tcl
>     functions where the queries invoke  other  functions/triggers
>     and so on :-).

See postgres.c.  We used to have that warning in postgres.c, but someone
changed something to fix it.  I can't see what was changed, now that I
am looking at it.


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