Re: [GENERAL] Sample in documentation

Tom et al,

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> I do not see any arrays named "length", nor even any arrays of size 2,
>>> on that page, so I'm pretty confused what you're talking about.  Please
>>> be more specific.
>
>> I based my code on this:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26911855/correct-way-to-bind-numeric-values-to-prepared-sql.
>> Sorry about that.
>
> Ah.  Well, we can't be responsible for random bits of code posted on
> stackoverflow.
>
>> Nevertheless, while it did compile by MSVC and gcc, it looks like
>> Xcode fails with compiling that code.
>
> Seems to me clang is being overly picky, but whatever.
>
>> So, is there any solution to this which can be used cross-platform?
>
> Don't use an initializer, assign the values one at a time.

Yes, that's what I ended up doing.

>
> Back in the day we used to avoid use of initializers for local variables
> because they weren't too portable.  It's depressing to see clang
> introducing new reasons for them not to be portable.

OK.
It would be nice to see what Borland would do in this case. ;-)

BTW, what do you guys use to build binaries for OSX? clang? gcc?

Thank you.

>
>                         regards, tom lane