Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> writes:
> > 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.
Indeed.
> 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.
That's certainly better. Thanks.
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Antonin Houska
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