hintonda added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D39436#912810, @clayborg wrote:

> I was unhappy when we went over two pointers for a FileSpec when m_syntax was 
> added due to the extra size. Anything we can do to make this smaller would be 
> great, so the type on the enum would work, but as you say the alignment will 
> nullify that. The two ConstString members contain a pointer which isn't 
> aligned so we can't use any bits from the low end of the pointer. Are there 
> any classes that take advantage of high bits in pointers? Most if not all 
> OS's don't use the entire 64 bit address space... It would be great to get 
> lldb_private::FileSpec down to just 2 pointers again.


Although completely unrelated to this patch, getting FileSpec back down to 2 
pointers is easily done.

There are several ways to do this -- either internal to FileSpec itself or made 
available more generally.  Depends on what you want -- all changes involve 
compromises.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D39436



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