Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> writes:
> Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> wrote:
>> while building on a rpi5 with a 32-bit system, I'm getting these warnings:
>> ...
>> I'm not sure if it's just the compiler (gcc 14.2) being pesky, or if
>> it's an actual issue. The repack tests seem to pass fine.
Several 32-bit BF animals are showing these too (so far: dodo,
grison, and turaco).
> We already introduced this definition above in the function to suppress this
> kind of warning
> union
> {
> alignas(int32) varlena hdr;
> char data[sizeof(void *)];
> } chunk_header;
> The problem on a 32-bit system probably is that sizeof(void *) is 4. We need
> some other constant. Maybe (sizeof(varlena) + 1) ...
This seems unnecessarily Rube Goldberg-ish already. Why not just
uint64 chunk_header;
It will not hurt anything if the variable has more-than-required
alignment. And it'd be better if it were the same size everywhere.
regards, tom lane
