From 285d8c658914d43cb39bacbde1ae62d8f6be25cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:31:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] buffer: align fast buffers on 8 byte boundary

Prevents alignment issues when people create a typed array from a buffer.
Unaligned loads or stores are less efficent and (on some architectures) unsafe.
---
 lib/buffer.js | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/buffer.js b/lib/buffer.js
index a0210b9b876..c23adb502e4 100644
--- a/lib/buffer.js
+++ b/lib/buffer.js
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ function Buffer(subject, encoding, offset) {
       this.parent = pool;
       this.offset = pool.used;
       pool.used += this.length;
+      if (pool.used & 7) pool.used = (pool.used + 8) & ~7;
     }
 
     // Treat array-ish objects as a byte array.