Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 12/11/17 16:45, Tom Lane wrote:
>> (BTW, why is it that we can't fall back on the negative-width-bitfield
>> trick for old g++?)
> The complaint is
> error: types may not be defined in 'sizeof' expressions
Hmm, well, surely there's more than one way to do that; the sizeof
is just a convenient way to wrap it in C. Wouldn't a typedef serve
just as well?
(Googling the topic shows that this wheel has been invented
before, BTW.)
regards, tom lane