From: | Brian E Gallew <geek+(at)cmu(dot)edu> |
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To: | hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] acl problem in NetBSD/m68k |
Date: | 1999-06-29 14:52:34 |
Message-ID: | emacs-smtp-26313-14200-56754-330647@export.andrew.cmu.edu |
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Then <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> spoke up and said:
> > There are two ways we could attack this: (1) put a "pad" field into
> > struct AclItem (prolly two uint8s) to try to ensure that compilers
> > would think it is 8 bytes long, or (2) make the size field for aclitem
> > in pg_type.h read "sizeof(AclItem)". I think the latter is a better
> > long-term solution, because it eliminates having to try to guess
> > what a compiler will do with a struct declaration. But there are
> > several possible counterarguments:
>
> Currently, initdb runs through pg_type.h using sed/awk, so it can't
> see any of the sizeof() defines. One hokey solution would be to have
> the compile process run a small C program that dumps out the acl size
> into a file, and have initdb pick up that. That is a terrible solution,
> though. I guess we don't have any other 'struct' data types that need
> to know the size of the struct on a give OS. Maybe padding with an
> Assert() to make sure it stays at the fixed size we specify is a good
> solution.
Perhaps it would be easier to pipe the output of cpp on pg_type.h thru
the awk/sed script? This would have the added advantage of making
other system-dependent changes to pg_type.h easier.
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