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Bug 795

Summary: use of allocate_shared should be added to notes on alignment
Product: Eigen Reporter: Phil <philip.miller>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Nobody <eigen.nobody>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Documentation CC: chtz, gael.guennebaud, jacob.benoit.1, jitseniesen
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
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Description Phil 2014-04-18 02:33:50 UTC
A note should be added to the alignment notes regarding use of allocate_shared.

One needs to use allocate_shared with the eigen aligned allocator when making shared_ptr objects. Use of make_shared may result in alignment errors similar to not using the aligned new allocator.
Comment 1 Christoph Hertzberg 2014-11-02 17:20:21 UTC
Similar issues can arise with boost::bind.
We also have notes about alignment on lots of different places, maybe we should join them to one single place and reference from everywhere to that.

http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Pit_Falls#Alignment_Issues_.28runtime_assertion.29
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox-devel/TopicUnalignedArrayAssert.html

Partially, links to non-existing sites exist:
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/TopicUnalignedArrayAssert.html
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/UnalignedArrayAssert.html
These should be forwarded to an existing page (Maybe backporting bug 804 to 3.2 does the trick)
Comment 2 Gael Guennebaud 2016-02-12 21:22:48 UTC
https://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/commits/1a730ab9c330/
https://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/commits/5e27de3082e8/ (3.2)
Summary:     Bug 795: mention allocate_shared as a candidate for aligned_allocator.

https://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/commits/f4b60905c141/
https://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/commits/33f2a9685d38/ (3.2)
Summary:     Import wiki's paragraph: "I disabled vectorization, but I'm still getting annoyed about alignment issues"


I've also fixed the broken links.
Comment 3 Nobody 2019-12-04 13:14:16 UTC
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