"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Apparently gcc's thought process is "the pointer is declared as struct
> varlena *, therefore must be at least 4-aligned, therefore the data at
> offset 2 is at least 2-aligned". The intermediate cast to "varattrib_1b_e *"
> did not prevent this; I had to assign the datum pointer into a separate
> local variable of that type to suppress the "optimization".

Fascinating.

Why do you cast arguments to memcmp to char* ?

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  Gregory Stark
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