#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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Comment (by simonmar):
Yes, good point. The `allocaBytes` version is fine, btw (except that it
should avoid wasting memory when alignement <= 8). `posix_memalign()` is
the only way I know to allocate aligned memory from the OS.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2917#comment:5>
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