"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* ? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly