#2917: alloca and allocaArray do not respect alignment
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler (FFI) | Version: 6.10.1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Os: Unknown/Multiple
Architecture: x86 |
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Changes (by simonmar):
* difficulty: => Unknown
Comment:
Thanks for the patch. As it stands, this will waste memory when the
required alignment is <= 8 bytes, since `allocaBytes` and `mallocBytes`
both always return 8-byte aligned memory. Could you modify the patch to
take that into account?
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2917#comment:2>
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