On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 03:51:29 PM Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 11:37 -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Monday, December 28, 2015 01:01:26 PM Warner Losh wrote:
> > > I'll look at that, but I don't think posix_memalign is the right
> > > way to go.
> > > The alignment of FILE is more strict than posix_memalign will
> > > return. Ian's
> > > idea of __alignof__ is the way to go. We allocate them in one block
> > > on
> > > purpose for performance, and posix_memalign would be a one at a
> > > time affair.
> > 
> > posix_memalign gives you whatever alignment you ask for.  Using
> > __alignof__
> > to determine the alignment instead of hardcoding sizeof(int64_t)
> > would
> > certainly be an improvement.  If you move the glue after the FILE
> > objects
> > then you can use posix_memalign() directly as so:
> > 
> >     void *mem;
> >     int error;
> > 
> >     error = posix_memalign(&mem, MAX(ALIGNBYTES,
> > __alignof__(mbstate_t)),
> >         n * sizeof(FILE) + sizeof(*g));
> >     if (error)
> >             return (NULL);
> >     p = (FILE *)mem;
> >     g = (struct glue *)(p + n);
> >     g->next = NULL;
> >     g->niobs = n;
> >     g->iobs = p;
> >     ...
> > 
> > (This presumes that the requested alignment of 'struct glue' is less
> > than
> > the alignment needed by FILE which should be true.)
> > 
> 
> If there's going to be an assumption that __alignof__(glue) <=
> __alignof__(FILE), it might be nice to have a static_assert() of that
> to prevent a future time bomb similar to the one that exploded on arm
> when it turned out the opposite assumption was wrong.

A static assert seems sensible, yes.

-- 
John Baldwin
_______________________________________________
svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list
https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Reply via email to