From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>,
        "Andrey M. Borodin" <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>,
        Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>,
        Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>,
        Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>,
        Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
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Subject: Re: new heapcheck contrib module
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Comments: In-reply-to Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
	message dated "Thu, 22 Oct 2020 21:41:15 -0400"
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I wrote:
> I get
> off = 7777, flags = 2, len = 3bbb
> on a little-endian machine, and
> off = 3bbb, flags = 2, len = 7777
> on big-endian.  It'd be less symmetric if the bytes weren't
> all the same ...

... but given that this is the test value we are using, why
don't both endiannesses whine about a non-maxalign'd offset?
The code really shouldn't even be trying to follow these
redirects, because we risk SIGBUS on picky architectures.

			regards, tom lane