Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> Well, if the caller thinks what is being passed back is an int,
>> it will do a 32-to-64-bit widening, which is almost certainly
>> going to result in a corrupted pointer.
> Oh, good point. Interesting that it still works then.
There must be something about the x86_64 ABI that allows this to
accidentally work -- maybe integers are presumed to be sign-extended
to 64 bits by callee not caller? I added some logging and verified
that pgstat.c is seeing the correct string value, so it's working
somehow.
> I've got a fix for the missing prototypes, I hadn't noticed the issue
> previously due to always building with SSL enabled as well.
Yeah, I'd just come to the conclusion that it's because I didn't
include --with-openssl, and libpq-be.h's #ifdef nest doesn't expect
that.
BTW, the kerberos test suite takes nearly 4 minutes for me, is
it supposed to be so slow?
regards, tom lane