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Re: RFC: New userspace fetch/store API




> On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:04 PM, matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
> 
> i like this.  the current API is ... odd.
> 
> can you add alignment documentation?  eg, if only to say that it
> must support aligned or unaligned accesses for the relevant
> datatypes.  not sure what we need currently, ie, if unaligned is
> needed because that happens today, or we can define it as wrong
> in this API.

Yah, I’ll make that clear.  It’s implicit in the current API (alpha would blow up otherwise), but I will make it explicit.

-- thorpej



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