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From: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2013, #02; Fri, 6)
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 23:23:11 +0100
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Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com> writes:

> Extending 'struct hashmap_entry' with an int-sized member shouldn't waste
> memory on 64-bit systems. This is already documented in api-hashmap.txt,
> but needs '__attribute__((__packed__))' to work. Reduces e.g.

You'd have to guard __attribute__((__packed__)) with some compiler
detection in git-compat-util.h though.

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Thomas Rast
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