Re: Compilation issue on Solaris.

On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 9:27 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> > Something bothers me about adding yet more clutter to every compile
> > line for the rest of time to solve a problem that exists only for
> > unpatched systems, and also that it's not even really a Solaris thing,
> > it's a C11 thing.
>
> I tend to agree with this standpoint: if it's only a warning, and
> it only appears in a small range of not-up-to-date Solaris builds,
> then a reasonable approach is "update your system if you don't want
> to see the warning".
>
> A positive argument for doing nothing is that there's room to worry
> whether -D__STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT1__ might have any side-effects we
> *don't* want.

This is still listed in the CF as needing review, so I went and marked
it rejected.

-- 
John Naylor
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