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The middle of the diff_filespec struct contains a mixture of
ints, shorts, and bit-fields, followed by a pointer. On an
x86-64 system with an LP64 or LLP64 data model (i.e., most
of them), the integers and flags end up being padded out by
41 bits to put the pointer at an 8-byte boundary.
After the pointer, we have the "int is_binary" field, which
is only 32 bits. We end up wasting another 32 bits to pad
the struct size up to a multiple of 64 bits.
We can move the is_binary field before the pointer, which
lets the compiler store it where we used to have padding.
This shrinks the top padding to only 9 bits (from the
bit-fields), and eliminates the bottom padding entirely,
dropping the struct size from 88 to 80 bytes.
On a 32-bit system, there is no benefit, but nor should
there be any harm (we only need 4-byte alignment there, so
we were already using only 9 bits of padding).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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