Re: warnings for invalid function casts

On 2020-07-04 16:16, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Do people prefer a typedef or just writing it out, like it's done in the
>> Python code?
> 
> I'm for a typedef.  There is *nothing* readable about "(void (*) (void))",
> and the fact that it's theoretically incorrect for the purpose doesn't
> exactly aid intelligibility either.  With a typedef, not only are
> the uses more readable but there's a place to put a comment explaining
> that this is notionally wrong but it's what gcc specifies to use
> to suppress thus-and-such warnings.

Makes sense.  New patch here.

>> But if we prefer a typedef then I'd propose
>> GenericFuncPtr like in the initial patch.
> 
> That name is OK by me.

I changed that to pg_funcptr_t, to look a bit more like C and less like 
Java. ;-)

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