Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: syntax errors in spinlocks (s_lock.h)

Without a patch to show us how to handle, it is hard for us to fix this.

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> Your name               : Jarda Benkovsky
> Your email address      : benkovsk@pha.pvt.cz
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> Category                : install: compile
> Severity                : serious
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> Summary: syntax errors in spinlocks (s_lock.h)
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> System Configuration
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>   Operating System   : Digital Unix 4.0e
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>   PostgreSQL version : 6.4.2
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>   Compiler used      : gcc 2.8.1, DEC C V5.8-009
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> Hardware:
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> Alpha 2100
> uname -a: OSF1 shadow.pvt.net V4.0 1091 alpha
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> Versions of other tools:
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> gnu make
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> Problem Description:
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> On Digital Unix alphas, msemaphores are defined as a struct of two ints.
> Neither gcc, nor native do not like constructs like *(lock) = 0;
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> Native cc:
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> /usr/bin/cc -I../../../include -I../../../backend   -DNOFIXADE  -I../..   -c buf_init.c -o buf_init.o
> cc: Error: buf_init.c, line 234: In this statement, "0" is of type "int", and cannot be converted to "struct declared
withouta tag". (noconvert) 
>                         S_INIT_LOCK(&(buf->io_in_progress_lock));
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> GCC:
> ../../../include/storage/s_lock.h: In function `tas':
> In file included from buf_init.c:29:
> ../../../include/storage/s_lock.h:102: aggregate value used where an integer was expected
> buf_init.c: In function `InitBufferPool':
> buf_init.c:234: incompatible types in assignment
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> Especially the case of native CC is interesting, as there
> should not be such case and I was not able to reproduce
> it in controlled environment - but maybe I did some mistake
> during the test.
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> Test Case:
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> ./configure; make
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> Solution:
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