JuliaArrays / JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl

forward `fill!` for views of OffsetArrays?

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Description

Would it be possible to forward fill!(a::SubArray{T, N, <:OffsetArray}, x) to fill!(view(parent(parent(a)), ...), x)? I'm having issues because I want to fill a view of an OffsetArray backed by a CuArray, but currently this tries to use the fallback definition in Base which requires scalar indexing.

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Start by reading the existing fill! methods for OffsetArray views and Julia's SubArray fallback, especially how the parent view is handled. Reproduce the CuArray-backed case described in the issue, then add coverage showing that filling the view avoids scalar indexing while preserving the requested values.

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julia
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backend
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