Re: MemSet inline for newNode

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I still test the palloc pointer alignment in MemSetLoop because that is
> > not a constant.
>
> But it's known aligned when you just got it from palloc.
>
> Why don't you simply implement what was agreed to in the original
> thread, namely:
>
>     * provide a MemSetAligned macro that is just like the standard
>       one except it omits the pointer alignment test
>
>     * provide a palloc0 macro that does MemSetAligned inside the
>       macro; known safe because palloc returns a maxaligned pointer

I can't do MemSet in a macro that returns a value, as palloc requires.
MemSet has a loop, and that can't be done in a macro that returns a value.

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