Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2013, #02; Fri, 6)

From: Karsten Blees <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 23:32:21 +0100

Am 07.12.2013 23:23, schrieb Thomas Rast:
> Karsten Blees <[email-masked]> 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.
> 

Isn't that already handled? __attribute__ is already widely used (e.g. for printf formats), and platforms that don't support it define it as empty (e.g. MSVC). Or do you mean I should account for compiler-specific variants (#pragma pack...)?