From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:03:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dir: support platforms that require aligned reads
Message-ID: <20170716160313.2crnw6exyqpvp7ue@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <84b4d5aa-956f-932b-4e95-f181243215bc@web.de>

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 05:18:27PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:

> > it looks like assumptions about struct layout are pervasive and part of
> > the on-disk format. Yuck. :(
> 
> Assuming that there is no padding probably even works for the platforms
> the code currently supports (basically x86), but I don't know about
> others.  We'd need to change the writing side as well to match, though.
> Which is probably a good idea, but I tried to keep the patch small and
> its impact low.  Cross-machine usability is currently explicitly not
> supported -- not sure why, though.

Yeah, I think your patch is a good first step, and we don't have to go
further for now.

-Peff