Re: pgindent issue with EXEC_BACKEND-only typedefs

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> I have commited a change to src/tools/find_typedef that should allow it
> to run under Linux.  The only difference I see is that some unused
> typedefs do not appear in the Linux version.

However, I think pgindent only cares about the typedef references, not
the definitions, so I think it might be fine

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> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > > Does someone want to generate that typedef list in the future?
> > 
> > I would love to do that, but objdump --stabs does not work for me like
> > find_typedefs says it should.  I only get something like:
> > 
> > $ objdump --stabs ../backend/postgres 
> > 
> > ../backend/postgres:     file format elf64-x86-64
> > 
> > $ objdump --version
> > GNU objdump (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.18.20071027
> > Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
> > the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
> > This program has absolutely no warranty.
> > 
> > 
> > I don't know how to make it output the symbol names like it seems to do
> > for you.
> > 
> > Having the typedef list in the script itself seems like a barrier for
> > other people to contribute to this thing.  I wonder if that can be
> > changed so that the typedef is on a separate list.
> > 
> > (Why are we still distributing pgjindent anyway?)
> > 
> > I am also wondering if current GNU indent is now better suited to the
> > task.  Perhaps the bugs that it had on earlier versions have since been
> > fixed?  I remember checking the source code size a couple of years ago
> > and it had grown by an order of magnitude or something like that.
> > 
> > -- 
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