On 31/08/2018 01:37, Tom Lane wrote:
> The fact that some of these are pretty old and we've not noticed is
> not good. It suggests that we don't currently have any compilers in the
> buildfarm that under-align char[] arrays on the stack, which seems like
> a gotcha waiting to bite us. I wonder if there is any way to persuade
> some compiler on a non-Intel box to do that.
-Wcast-align=strict (requires gcc-8) warns about the issue in
pg_verify_checksums.c, but also about a handful^W^W15211 other things,
so it wouldn't be immediately useful.
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