function makenodesbuffers!()

in src/arraytypes/unions.jl [300:327]

• 26 lines of code
• 3 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

function makenodesbuffers!(
    col::Union{DenseUnion,SparseUnion},
    fieldnodes,
    fieldbuffers,
    bufferoffset,
    alignment,
)
    len = length(col)
    nc = nullcount(col)
    push!(fieldnodes, FieldNode(len, nc))
    @debugv 1 "made field node: nodeidx = $(length(fieldnodes)), col = $(typeof(col)), len = $(fieldnodes[end].length), nc = $(fieldnodes[end].null_count)"
    
    push!(fieldbuffers, Buffer(bufferoffset, len))
    @debugv 1 "made field buffer: bufferidx = $(length(fieldbuffers)), offset = $(fieldbuffers[end].offset), len = $(fieldbuffers[end].length), padded = $(padding(fieldbuffers[end].length, alignment))"
    bufferoffset += padding(len, alignment)
    if col isa DenseUnion
        
        blen = sizeof(Int32) * len
        push!(fieldbuffers, Buffer(bufferoffset, blen))
        @debugv 1 "made field buffer: bufferidx = $(length(fieldbuffers)), offset = $(fieldbuffers[end].offset), len = $(fieldbuffers[end].length), padded = $(padding(fieldbuffers[end].length, alignment))"
        bufferoffset += padding(blen, alignment)
    end
    for child in col.data
        bufferoffset =
            makenodesbuffers!(child, fieldnodes, fieldbuffers, bufferoffset, alignment)
    end
    return bufferoffset
end