[pypy-dev] unaligned raw_load

[Matti Picus]

Thanks to Arimin and Brian Kearns.
They fixed unaligned memory access, now ARM micronumpy no longer crashes 
during testing.
Matti

On 02/23/2014 11:43 AM, Armin Rigo wrote:
> I've checked in some new code in rawstorage.py on default:
> raw_storage_{get,set}item_unaligned().  It's regular RPython code that
> checks if the argument is aligned or not, and if not, it falls back to
> a memcpy().  It should be relatively jit-friendly.  Note that I also
> changed the non-unaligned functions so that, when untranslated, they
> complain if the address is unaligned, whatever the platform.
>
> Can you try to change some or all of the raw_storage_{get,set}item()
> calls in micronumpy?  I don't really know which ones are at a risk of
> seeing unaligned accesses, and which ones not.  It seems that all of
> them are at risk: see the failure in
> test_numarray.AppTestRecordDtype.test_string_record.
>
>
> A bientôt,
>
> Armin.