On 2/15/14, 10:22 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> On 1/15/14, 12:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Meh. I don't think that extension authors are really going to appreciate
>>> changing from "thou shalt declare all thy functions" to "thou shalt
>>> declare none of them".
>
>> This patch does no such thing.
>
> Yes it does; people who fail to remove their manual externs will get
> Windows-only build failures (or at least warnings; it's not very clear
> which declaration will win).
The manual externs and the automatically provided ones are exactly the
same. Why would that fail?