Re: Detecting pointer misalignment (was Re: pgsql: Implementation of subscripting for jsonb)

Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-02-12T01:36:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 9:46 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:49 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> Ugh, no it isn't: even pretty recent clang releases only define
> >> __GNUC__ as 4.  It looks like we need a separate test on clang's
> >> version.  I looked at their version history and sanitizers seem
> >> to have come in around clang 7, so I propose the attached (where
> >> I worked a bit harder on the comment, too).
>
> > Looks good to me.  Thank you for revising!
>
> Were you going to push this, or did you expect me to?

Thank you for noticing.  I'll commit this today.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov



Commits

  1. pg_attribute_no_sanitize_alignment() macro

  2. Tweak compiler version cutoff for no_sanitize("alignment") support.

  3. Implementation of subscripting for jsonb