From: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:25:09 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Suppress "has no symbols" linker warnings on macOS.
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3dd42ee97b812c0711b4d18e9cab069065367dca;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git

Suppress "has no symbols" linker warnings on macOS.

After a recent macOS update, building Postgres produces warnings
that look like this:

    ranlib: warning: 'libpgport_shlib.a(pg_cpu_x86.c.o)' has no symbols
    ranlib: warning: 'libpgport_shlib.a(pg_popcount_x86.c.o)' has no symbols

To fix, add a dummy symbol to files that may otherwise have none.
Per project policy, this is a candidate for back-patching into
out-of-support branches: it suppresses annoying compiler warnings
but changes no behavior.

Reported-by: Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/229aaaf3-f529-44ed-8e50-00cb6909af21%40Spark
Backpatch-through: 13
---

diff --git a/src/port/pg_cpu_x86.c b/src/port/pg_cpu_x86.c
index 150b4a1d574..f22167da9af 100644
--- a/src/port/pg_cpu_x86.c
+++ b/src/port/pg_cpu_x86.c
@@ -263,5 +263,10 @@ x86_hypervisor_tsc_frequency_khz(void)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#else							/* defined(USE_SSE2) || defined(__i386__) */
 
-#endif							/* defined(USE_SSE2) || defined(__i386__) */
+/* prevent linker complaints about empty module */
+extern int	pg_cpu_x86_dummy_variable;
+int			pg_cpu_x86_dummy_variable = 0;
+
+#endif							/* ! (USE_SSE2 || __i386__) */
diff --git a/src/port/pg_popcount_aarch64.c b/src/port/pg_popcount_aarch64.c
index 3969a42523c..fc249bf8766 100644
--- a/src/port/pg_popcount_aarch64.c
+++ b/src/port/pg_popcount_aarch64.c
@@ -463,4 +463,10 @@ pg_popcount_masked_neon(const char *buf, int bytes, uint8 mask)
 	return popcnt;
 }
 
-#endif							/* USE_NEON */
+#else							/* USE_NEON */
+
+/* prevent linker complaints about empty module */
+extern int	pg_popcount_aarch64_dummy_variable;
+int			pg_popcount_aarch64_dummy_variable = 0;
+
+#endif							/* ! USE_NEON */
diff --git a/src/port/pg_popcount_x86.c b/src/port/pg_popcount_x86.c
index 91579e6b569..6df76c77c41 100644
--- a/src/port/pg_popcount_x86.c
+++ b/src/port/pg_popcount_x86.c
@@ -301,4 +301,10 @@ pg_popcount_masked_sse42(const char *buf, int bytes, uint8 mask)
 	return popcnt;
 }
 
-#endif							/* HAVE_X86_64_POPCNTQ */
+#else							/* HAVE_X86_64_POPCNTQ */
+
+/* prevent linker complaints about empty module */
+extern int	pg_popcount_x86_dummy_variable;
+int			pg_popcount_x86_dummy_variable = 0;
+
+#endif							/* ! HAVE_X86_64_POPCNTQ */