[SciPy-user] numpy aligned memory

[Pauli Virtanen]

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:33:32 +0530, Rohit Garg wrote:
> I saw this
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/numpy-discussion@scipy.org/msg04005.html
> 
> while googling for numpy memory alignment. I wish to know if anything on
> that account has come to pass yet? On linux 64 bit platform, can I
> assume anything beyond the glibc alignment as of now?

You cannot assume even glibc alignment, unless the array has the ALIGNED 
flag set. (This has actually caused a few bugs also in Numpy & Scipy, cf. 
eg. #551.) For example unpickling can produce arrays that are not aligned 
at itemsize boundaries, if the original array did not have its ALIGNED 
flag set.

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Pauli Virtanen