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Re: Type assertions without GCC builtins

Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

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From: "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres@jeltef.nl>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: "Thomas Munro" <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-12-09T14:45:43Z
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2025 at 13:43, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:
> You mean use const_cast in c++ instead of a C-style cast? Would you
> still want to keep the static asserts.

I now understand that you meant to not remove these lines:
-#if defined(__cplusplus)
-#define unconstify(underlying_type, expr) const_cast<underlying_type>(expr)
-#define unvolatize(underlying_type, expr) const_cast<underlying_type>(expr)

So like the attached. I think that makes sense.