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Force alignment for all chunk buffers #225

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Force alignment for all chunk buffers #225

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@arkpar arkpar commented Oct 6, 2023

Closes #223

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pub type Chunk = [u8; CHUNK_LEN];
#[repr(C, align(8))]
#[derive(PartialEq, Eq, Clone, Copy, Debug)]
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Is the impact of not being Copy big ? (but not sure if we want to force explicit clone here).

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Made it explicit. Also changed transmute_chunk to operate on references, as it allows to eliminate a copy in some places.

@@ -35,3 +35,6 @@ pub type Key = [u8; KEY_SIZE];

#[cfg(not(any(target_arch = "x86_64", target_arch = "aarch64")))]
compile_error!("parity-db only supports x86_64 and aarch64");

#[cfg(not(target_endian = "little"))]
compile_error!("parity-db only supports little-endian platforms");
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Make sense (keeping support would require a CI test indeed).

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Yeah, it is not tested properly. The platform restriction of x86_64 and aarch64 limits it to little endian anyway.

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LGTM

@arkpar arkpar merged commit ec68693 into master Oct 6, 2023
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@arkpar arkpar deleted the arkpar/transmute branch October 6, 2023 10:55
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Misaligned pointer dereference in chunk_entries_at and transmute_chunk
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