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-rw-r--r--src/mem.rs11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/mem.rs b/src/mem.rs
index 272641c..6aae337 100644
--- a/src/mem.rs
+++ b/src/mem.rs
@@ -194,6 +194,9 @@ compile_error!("Current RAM implementation requires a little-endian host.");
impl Ram {
pub fn try_new(size: usize) -> Result<Self, std::io::Error> {
+ if !size.is_multiple_of(8) {
+ return Err(std::io::Error::other("ram size must be a multiple of 8"));
+ }
Ok(Self {
buf: MmapMut::map_anon(size)?,
})
@@ -204,9 +207,13 @@ impl Ram {
}
/// # Safety
- /// Safe if T has a size divisible by page size (4kb) (or is known to have a size divisible by the full ram size) and you know that the RAM is made up of valid naturally aligned values of T
+ /// Safe if the size of the memory in bytes is divisible by the size of T
+ /// Assuming try_new is used, RAM size is guaranteed to be a multiple of 8
+ /// meaning anything with size 1, 2, 4, or 8 bytes is valid.
+ /// It must also be known that the contents of RAM are made up of naturally
+ /// aligned valid instances of T.
#[inline]
- pub unsafe fn buf_transmuted<T>(&self) -> &[T] {
+ unsafe fn buf_transmuted<T>(&self) -> &[T] {
debug_assert!(self.buf.len().is_multiple_of(std::mem::size_of::<T>()));
unsafe {
std::slice::from_raw_parts(