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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Pack files, standards compliance, and efficiency
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 22:03:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5572008F.6030203@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150605194200.GB356121@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

On 06/05/2015 09:42 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 05:22:08PM +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
>> I don't know that there would necessarily be problems, but I
>> would worry about code involving structure assignment. For
>> example, suppose the following snippet:
>> 
>> void f(struct object_id *oid) { struct object_id oid_copy =
>> *oid; /* ... */ }
>> 
>> The compiler is allowed to implement the copy using instructions
>> that rely on proper alignment. Such code would fail if oid is not
>> properly aligned.
> 
> We use oidcpy which doesn't use object assignment.  I brought that
> up previously, and Junio was opposed to doing *dest = *src.  So I
> don't think this ends up being an issue.

Sorry for overlooking (or forgetting :-( ) that discussion. Indeed,
that would allay my worry.

Michael

-- 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu

      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-05 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-05  1:41 Pack files, standards compliance, and efficiency brian m. carlson
2015-06-05  9:45 ` Jeff King
2015-06-05 10:14   ` Duy Nguyen
2015-06-05 10:36     ` Jeff King
2015-06-05 13:24       ` Duy Nguyen
2015-06-05 19:59       ` brian m. carlson
2015-06-05 16:43     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-05 15:22   ` Michael Haggerty
2015-06-05 19:42     ` brian m. carlson
2015-06-05 20:03       ` Michael Haggerty [this message]

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