while I dont know the original context, some care may be needed ...
depending on how this alignment assumption is accidentally used by users...
it may result in really gross breakages
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 1:44 PM Ömer Sinan Ağacan
Hi,
I just found out we currently align all pinned array payloads to 16 bytes and I'm wondering why. I don't see any comments/notes on this, and it's also not part of the primop documentation. We also have another primop for aligned allocation: newAlignedPinnedByteArray#. Given that alignment behavior of newPinnedByteArray# is not documented and we have another one for aligned allocation, perhaps we can remove alignment in newPinnedByteArray#.
Does anyone remember what was the motivation for always aligning pinned arrays?
Thanks
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