Re: [PATCH] Define constants for lengths of object names

brian m. carlson wrote:

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:20:07AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

quoted

What happened to the

	struct object_id {
		unsigned char id[20];
	};

	...

	struct object {
		...
		struct object_id id;
	};

idea?

There didn't seem to be a huge amount of support for it.

I can make up for it in enthuasiasm.  Please?  It's something I've
wanted for a long time but never found the time to do.

                                                          Also, there
were concerns that some architectures might impose alignment constraints
on it that made sizeof(struct object_id) != 20.

Sounds awful.  What architecture?

Thanks,
Jonathan