Macro redefinition warning after aeb07c55fab5c17a600b77ffcdc3b71425d6a8e7

Started by Tristan Partin24 days ago3 messageshackers
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#1Tristan Partin
tristan@partin.io

When compiling, I get the following warnings:

[338/2397] Compiling C object src/timezone/zic.p/zic.c.o
In file included from ../src/timezone/zic.c:22:
../src/timezone/private.h:187:9: warning: ‘unreachable’ redefined
187 | #define unreachable() pg_unreachable()
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/include/c.h:68,
from ../src/include/postgres_fe.h:28,
from ../src/timezone/zic.c:11:
/nix/store/hkldzpgigap7kkqzdr5j4qqyy5ac4l6x-gcc-16.1.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/16.1.0/include/stddef.h:468:9: note: this is the location of the previous definition
468 | #define unreachable() (__builtin_unreachable ())
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
[1218/2397] Compiling C object src/backend/postgres_lib.a.p/.._timezone_strftime.c.o
In file included from ../src/timezone/strftime.c:45:
../src/timezone/private.h:187:9: warning: ‘unreachable’ redefined
187 | #define unreachable() pg_unreachable()
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/include/c.h:68,
from ../src/include/postgres.h:48,
from ../src/timezone/strftime.c:41:
/nix/store/hkldzpgigap7kkqzdr5j4qqyy5ac4l6x-gcc-16.1.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/16.1.0/include/stddef.h:468:9: note: this is the location of the previous definition
468 | #define unreachable() (__builtin_unreachable ())
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
[1225/2397] Compiling C object src/backend/postgres_lib.a.p/.._timezone_localtime.c.o
In file included from ../src/timezone/localtime.c:24:
../src/timezone/private.h:187:9: warning: ‘unreachable’ redefined
187 | #define unreachable() pg_unreachable()
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/include/c.h:68,
from ../src/timezone/localtime.c:17:
/nix/store/hkldzpgigap7kkqzdr5j4qqyy5ac4l6x-gcc-16.1.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/16.1.0/include/stddef.h:468:9: note: this is the location of the previous definition
468 | #define unreachable() (__builtin_unreachable ())
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
[1310/2397] Compiling C object src/bin/initdb/initdb.p/.._.._timezone_localtime.c.o
In file included from ../src/timezone/localtime.c:24:
../src/timezone/private.h:187:9: warning: ‘unreachable’ redefined
187 | #define unreachable() pg_unreachable()
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/include/c.h:68,
from ../src/timezone/localtime.c:17:
/nix/store/hkldzpgigap7kkqzdr5j4qqyy5ac4l6x-gcc-16.1.0/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/16.1.0/include/stddef.h:468:9: note: this is the location of the previous definition
468 | #define unreachable() (__builtin_unreachable ())
| ^~~~~~~~~~~

The upstream code for private.h's definition of unreachable() looks
quite a bit different than ours[0]https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/e14ee1cb61ca948b45f928ad187eaecc5a92d27e/private.h#L1055-L1069. Seems like maybe our defintion was
over simplified. I don't actually know how the code is pulled in.

Attached it a potential solution based on how we protect the
static_assert definition in the same file.

[0]: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/e14ee1cb61ca948b45f928ad187eaecc5a92d27e/private.h#L1055-L1069

--
Tristan Partin
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
AWS (https://aws.amazon.com)

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#2Masahiko Sawada
sawada.mshk@gmail.com
In reply to: Tristan Partin (#1)
Re: Macro redefinition warning after aeb07c55fab5c17a600b77ffcdc3b71425d6a8e7

On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 9:32 AM Tristan Partin <tristan@partin.io> wrote:

When compiling, I get the following warnings:

FYI I got the same warnings (Fedora 43, gcc 1.2.1).

Regards,

--
Masahiko Sawada
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

#3Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Tristan Partin (#1)
Re: Macro redefinition warning after aeb07c55fab5c17a600b77ffcdc3b71425d6a8e7

"Tristan Partin" <tristan@partin.io> writes:

When compiling, I get the following warnings:
[338/2397] Compiling C object src/timezone/zic.p/zic.c.o
In file included from ../src/timezone/zic.c:22:
../src/timezone/private.h:187:9: warning: ‘unreachable’ redefined
187 | #define unreachable() pg_unreachable()
| ^~~~~~~~~~~

Thanks for the report.

The upstream code for private.h's definition of unreachable() looks
quite a bit different than ours[0].

Yeah. I intentionally used our version rather than hoping that
theirs would work in our environment. I still think that's the
right way, so I'm inclined to fix this by throwing in an "#undef".

regards, tom lane