Setting a hard limit on slice size, is this possible?

james.p.leblanc james.p.leblanc at gmail.com
Sun Aug 8 05:33:47 UTC 2021


On Sunday, 8 August 2021 at 02:00:26 UTC, Tejas wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 August 2021 at 19:07:04 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>> On Saturday, 7 August 2021 at 15:41:24 UTC, Tejas wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 7 August 2021 at 15:21:01 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Oh wow, and here I thought I was being smart :(
>>>
>>> So, how can we work around this without assembly language 
>>> magic? I'm illiterate at assembly.
>>
>> For stack allocations, you can use the workaround in [Vladimir 
>> Panteleev's comment][1]  (ignoring the ASM part, which is 
>> unrelated to alignment).
>>
>> For heap allocations, I guess the easiest way would be to use 
>> [`AlignedMallocator`][2] from `std.experimental.allocator`.
>>
>> [1]: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16098#c3
>> [2]: 
>> https://phobos.dpldocs.info/std.experimental.allocator.mallocator.AlignedMallocator.html
>
> Cool... thanks

Thanks to everyone for all of the great discussion and hints on 
this topic!

I have learned quite much, and have a gained an understanding on
how to use D effectively.

Fantastic forum here on a great language.

Best Regards,
James







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