Re: [Tsp-devel] Alignment error on VxWorks

[Frederik Deweerdt]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 05:05:57PM +0100, Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2008/11/27 Frédéric Martinsons <address@hidden>:
> > OK thanks for answering so fast Stephane and Fred (nice name by the way).
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^
I tend to think the same, indeed :-)
> >
> > Stop me if I'm wrong : BB is a big shared malloc and when we call
> > bb_publish,data is written "manually" into it and return the address of the
> > first byte ?
Yep, exactly
[...]
> Concerning memalign usage, it should be available on other platform as well
> but we'll have to check.
> Note that we have the same alignment issue for the memory ringbuf used
> in tsp core, the alignment issue was solved using a nice macro :=)
> see
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/tsp/src/core/misc_utils/tsp_ringbuf.h?root=tsp&view=markup
> 
> The macro is:
> #define RINGBUF_SZ(sz)                ((sz) + 1 + (4-(((sz) + 1) % 4)))
I'm not sure I'm following, what do memalign is buying us there? I think
using this kind of macro in bb_publish if a given flag is present should
be enough.

Regards,
Frederik