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.
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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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