On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Could it be that MAXALIGN/TYPEALIGN doesn't really work for values
> bigger than 32bit?
>
> #define MAXALIGN(LEN) TYPEALIGN(MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF, (LEN))
> #define TYPEALIGN(ALIGNVAL,LEN) \
> (((intptr_t) (LEN) + ((ALIGNVAL) - 1)) & ~((intptr_t) ((ALIGNVAL) - 1)))
Isn't the problem, more specifically, that it doesn't work for values
larger than an intptr_t?
And does that indicate that intptr_t is the wrong type to be using here?
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