Simon,

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 29 Sep 2017, at 9:06pm, Denis V. Razumovsky <t...@denis.im> wrote:
>
>> What can be wrong for _any_ of the compilers if you will define
>> SQLITE_4_BYTE_ALIGNED_MALLOC as 0 in sqlite3.h? It's so simple. I think
>> it should only get better for all platforms and compilers )
>
> If SQLITE_4_BYTE_ALIGNED_MALLOC always means 0 under all circumstances, why 
> did someone bother to make it a named option ?  Why doesn’t the code just 
> assume zero ?
>
> Under Windows malloc() returns a 4-byte aligned pointer, i.e. that the option 
> has to be set to 1.  The same occurs in many embedded processors, which have 
> far less memory than you’re used to on a multi-purpose desktop computer.  
> It’s not simple.  And it doesn’t work on all platforms.
>
> You are still proceeding as if your own development platform and target CPU 
> is the only one SQLite has to work for.

But then why not give it some default value ("0" maybe") and default
it to "1" only if needed during configure?

Thank you.

>
> Simon.
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