> On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:19 PM, Jason Thorpe <thor...@me.com> wrote: >> On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:04 PM, matthew green <m...@eterna.com.au> wrote: >> >> i like this. the current API is ... odd. >> >> can you add alignment documentation? eg, if only to say that it >> must support aligned or unaligned accesses for the relevant >> datatypes. not sure what we need currently, ie, if unaligned is >> needed because that happens today, or we can define it as wrong >> in this API. > > Yah, I’ll make that clear. It’s implicit in the current API (alpha would > blow up otherwise), but I will make it explicit.
I added the following: <quote> All addresses MUST be naturally-aligned for their type. If unaligned access is required, use copy(9). </quote> OK? -- thorpej