On Wed, Sep 28 2022, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> ... I have no objection to adding more comments, but I am >> happy enough without them (like Junio, it may be that I'm overly >> familiar with how I expect our get_be() functions to handle alignment). >> ... >> So it's mostly just a minor annoyance for running the tests; we're >> probably better not to change any code, even trivially, this late in the >> release cycle. > > Yup. I never planned to merge the topic to 'master'. The finishing > touch I expected was to help Phillip and friends with a bit of > explanation in the log message, and then it would be ready to wait > in 'next' for the next cycle. In the interim are we interested in a minimal patch to the specific scalar test that's finding this under SANITIZE=undefined, as running un-cleanly will be new in this release?