| Title | "Arena alignment" is a misleading name |
| Status | closed |
| Priority | nice |
| Assigned user | Gareth Rees |
| Organization | Ravenbrook |
| Description | The code uses "alignment" to mean "grain of arena allocation". This name is misleading: the value is not actually an alignment (though we insist that it is a power of two for performance reasons in the tract lookup calculation). Moreover, the confusion between the "arena alignment" and ordinary structure alignment makes functions that have to deal with both very hard to write clearly, such as the client and VM arena implementations. |
| Analysis | Rename "arena alignment" to "arena grain size" or "grain" for short. |
| How found | inspection |
| Evidence | None |
| Created by | Gareth Rees |
| Created on | 2014-06-11 15:00:40 |
| Last modified by | Gareth Rees |
| Last modified on | 2014-06-13 15:34:32 |
| History | 2014-06-11 GDR Created. |
| Change | Effect | Date | User | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 186573 | closed | 2014-06-13 15:34:32 | Gareth Rees | Merge branch/2014-06-11/grain into the master sources. |