[Numpy-discussion] Review of issue 825

[Charles R Harris]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Neil,
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Neil Muller <drnlmuller+scipy at gmail.com<drnlmuller%2Bscipy at gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Charles R Harris
>>> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Looks to me like the NPY_ALIGNED flag is incorrectly set. Can you check
>>> > this  by printing the results of
>>> >
>>> > PyArray_CHKFLAGS(ap, NPY_ALIGNED)
>>>
>>> For the test listed in the ticket, the array isn't flagged as aligned
>>> - ap->flags =  NPY_CONTIGUOUS | NPY_FORTRAN | NPY_WRITEABLE
>>>
>>> I'm under the impression that NPY_ALIGNED refers to the alignment of
>>> the entire entry, though, in which case it's irrelevant here, since
>>> the problem is with the internal alignment of items within a single
>>> array entry.
>>>
>>
>> It looks like it refers to the item. Look  at VOID_getitem to see how it
>> is set item by item.
>>
>> Can you try the attached patch?
>>
>
> Oops, try this one instead. I'm not sure why the last one worked.
>

Seems to work, no bus errors.  Etch has a problem with memmap.roundtrip
while Lenny does fine, but that looks to be some other problem.

Chuck
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