The raw page data that is passed into the functions will not be aligned
at 8-byte boundaries. Casting that to a struct and accessing int64
fields will result in unaligned access. On most platforms, you get away
with it, but it will result on a crash on pickier platforms such as ia64
and sparc64.
Somebody apparently thought that "if Int32GetDatum is good,
Int64GetDatum must be better". Per buildfarm failures now
that Peter has added some regression tests here.