Li, Peng wrote:
In GHC, how can I allocate a chunk of memory aligned to some block
size (say, 512 or 1024 bytes)? I tried to specify it in the
alignment method in the Storable typeclass, but that does not seem
to work. Is Storable.alignment really used in GHC? If so, is there a
code example that
For the moment I am using the C function memalign() like this:
foreign import ccall static stdlib.h
memalign :: CInt - CInt - IO (Ptr CChar)
iirc, memalign is not provided on windows, nor by mingw.
so this wouldn't be portable.
claus
Storable.alignment is not used, it is there for
* Li, Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
In GHC, how can I allocate a chunk of memory aligned to some block
size (say, 512 or 1024 bytes)? I tried to specify it in the
alignment method in the Storable typeclass, but that does not seem
to work. Is Storable.alignment really used in GHC? If so, is there a
In GHC, how can I allocate a chunk of memory aligned to some block
size (say, 512 or 1024 bytes)? I tried to specify it in the
alignment method in the Storable typeclass, but that does not seem
to work. Is Storable.alignment really used in GHC? If so, is there a
code example that allocates aligned
