[Numpy-discussion] object array alignment issues

[Travis Oliphant]

On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:

> I've filed a bug and attached a patch:
>
> http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1267
>
> No guarantees that I've found all of the alignment issues.  I did a  
> grep
> for "PyObject **" to find possible locations where PyObject * in  
> arrays
> were being dereferenced.  If I could write a unit test to make it fall
> over on Solaris, then I fixed it, otherwise I left it alone.  For
> example, there are places where misaligned dereferencing is
> theoretically possible (OBJECT_dot, OBJECT_compare), but a higher  
> level
> function already did a "BEHAVED" array cast.  In those cases I added a
> unit test so hopefully we'll be able to catch it in the future if the
> caller no longer ensures well-behavedness.


This patch looks great technically.  Thank you for tracking this down  
and correcting my error.

Right now, though, the patch has too many white-space only changes in  
it.  Could you submit a new patch that removes those changes?

Thanks,

-Travis

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