What do you gain from this?
On Mar 8, 2018 9:19 AM, "Andrew Martin"
Let's say I have a gc-managed byte array of length 19. GHC promises that byte arrays are machine-word-aligned on the front end. That is, on a 64-bit machine, this array starts on a memory address that divide 8 evenly. However, the back end will certainly be unaligned. So, these two calls will be fine:
- indexWordArray# myArr# 0# - indexWordArray# myArr# 1#
But this one is non-deterministic:
- indexWordArray# myArr# 2#
Some of the bytes in the word will have garbage in them. However, this could always be masked out with a bit mask (you have to know the platform endianness for this to work right). Is this safe? I doubt think this could ever cause a segfault but I wanted to check.
-- -Andrew Thaddeus Martin
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