#1731: Assumption made about buffer header alignment
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Reporter: Paul C. Anagnostopoulos | Owner: Paul C. Anagnostopoulos
Type: bug | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: core | Version: 2.6.0
Severity: low | Keywords:
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Comment(by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos):
We have two options for fixing the faulty assumption described in the
original ticket.
One approach is to simply declare by fiat that the size of the buffer
prolog will always equal the size of a pointer. This means that the buffer
data area will always be aligned on the same alignment as a pointer; there
will be no possibility of any other alignment.
The second approach is actually to fix the problem. This means that the
calculation of the buffer alignment will become more complex, which
affects about a dozen functions in three or four files.
Which approach should we take?
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1731#comment:7>
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