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Re: memory mapped i/o?


>>>>> "David" == David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> writes:

David> I can see needing a different data type (array is a jbyteArray)
David> and vtable, but nothing related to alignment seems obvious.

David> The "data" is already maximally aligned (page boundary), and must
David> be ... are you saying that there's something about the GCJ ABI
David> gives additional alignment requirements for that array header?

The array data must be at the correct alignment for its type.  This
means that the space between the array header and the array data can
vary by type.

Tom

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