Added default for abstract arrays that tries to extract a parent to make it dense. If extracting parent succeeds, but the parent is a non-dense AbstractArray, it will stackoverflow, which unfortunately is not an informative error.

Author: chriselrod

Project.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "VectorizationBase"
 uuid = "3d5dd08c-fd9d-11e8-17fa-ed2836048c2f"
 authors = ["Chris Elrod <elrodc@gmail.com>"]
-version = "0.1.1"
+version = "0.1.2"
 
 [deps]
 CpuId = "adafc99b-e345-5852-983c-f28acb93d879"

src/vectorizable.jl

@@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ end
 
 
 @inline stridedpointer(x) = Pointer(x)
+@inline stridedpointer(x::AbstractArray) = stridedpointer(parent(x))
 @inline stridedpointer(A::DenseArray) = PackedStridedPointer(pointer(A), Base.tail(strides(A)))
 @generated function stridedpointer(A::SubArray{T,N,P,S,B}) where {T,N,P,S,B}
     if first(S.parameters) <: Integer # nonunit stride 1