Re: ANSI-strict pointer aliasing rules - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: ANSI-strict pointer aliasing rules
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Msg-id 87slnz6kau.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: ANSI-strict pointer aliasing rules  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
Responses Re: ANSI-strict pointer aliasing rules  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:

> You're right, PostgreSQL uses a form of subclassing, so that a (for
> example) struct ArrayRefExprState is occasionally referred to using a
> (struct ExprState*) or even a (struct Node*). In C, the logical way to
> get that to work it by casting, do you have a better way?

There are other ways of achieving the same thing. Structs containing a union
for the subclass fields for example.

-- 
greg



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