Re: Fix and improve allocation formulas

Hi,

On 2025-12-11 13:27:56 +0000, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> - 0002 is a very large patch. I think that it provides added value as mentioned
> above but I'm not sure it is worth the noise. Anyway it is done, so sharing
> here to get your thoughts.

I find the recent trend to sent auto-generated huge patches to the list
... not great. I think there's practially zero chance of them getting applied
and it takes away mental bandwidth from stuff that has a chance.

I tend to agree that what you propose is the better style, but I seriously
doubt that

a) changing over everything at once is worth the backpatch hazard and review
pain
b) that to judge whether we should do this a 277kB patch is useful
c) that changing the existing code should be the first thing, if we want to
make this the new style, we should first document the sizeof(*var) approach to
be preferred.

Greetings,

Andres Freund