Re: Unwarrented warning from ESQL/C 5.00

From article <21hc37INN66v@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, by unifi!goofy.unifi.com!bharat@uunet.UU.NET (Bharat Shah): > Netters, > > We are currently in the process of upgrading our products to use latest > Informix offerings. While attempting to upgrade from ESQL/C 4.00 to 5.00 > I came across the following irritating :-( pre-compiler 'esql' warning. > > esqlc: "try.ec", line 21: Warning -33208: > Runtime error is possible because size of '(aa_t).name' is unknown. > esqlc: "try.ec", line 21: Warning -33208: > Runtime error is possible because size of '(aa_t).flag' is unknown. > 2 warning(s) > > It seems that the pre-compiler is so 'dumb' that it cannot resolve the > embedded defines. In a large development as ours - I have no way to eliminate > defines and replace them with their numeric equivalent. (by the way $define > is also not resolved & the same warning crops up). > Sure, but it doesn't seem to matter: the generated code says ...., sizeof (aa_t).name, ... which is all that's necessary (but makes the warning that much more infuriating). My peeve is getting error -404 at runtime. Finderr claims "this error should never happen; call Informix support".