Align to 4-byte boundaries for 32-bit environments #315
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TL;DR
This Pull Request addresses memory alignment issues encountered in Go's 32-bit build environment.
Longer version
I need to run DataDog in a Go 32-bit build environment. While using DataDog/dd-trace-go.v1, I encountered the following panic error in datadog-go:
(Reference: BufferedMetricContext.go Line 53)
In a 32-bit build environment, it's sometimes not possible to align 64-bit data types correctly to an 8-byte boundary. To address this, I aligned to a 4-byte boundary using an underscore variable. This change allowed DataDog to operate correctly in the 32-bit build environment.
Although this is a rare case, I would appreciate it if you could consider incorporating this fix.