From 3e4a22f553d5c3b3f4feea1e423fc3809041ae13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aayush Sabharwal <aayush.sabharwal@juliahub.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:44:35 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix: allow setting VoA of SArray using scalars

---
 src/vector_of_array.jl  | 7 ++++++-
 test/interface_tests.jl | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/vector_of_array.jl b/src/vector_of_array.jl
index 933c542d..b05c646b 100644
--- a/src/vector_of_array.jl
+++ b/src/vector_of_array.jl
@@ -681,7 +681,12 @@ end
             copyto!(dest[:, i], unpack_voa(bc, i))
         else
             unpacked = unpack_voa(bc, i)
-            dest[:, i] = unpacked.f(unpacked.args...)
+            value = unpacked.f(unpacked.args...)
+            dest[:, i] = if value isa Number && dest[:, i] isa AbstractArray
+                fill(value, StaticArraysCore.similar_type(dest[:, i]))
+            else
+                value
+            end
         end
     end
     dest
diff --git a/test/interface_tests.jl b/test/interface_tests.jl
index cba4727a..4b2a9e35 100644
--- a/test/interface_tests.jl
+++ b/test/interface_tests.jl
@@ -149,3 +149,6 @@ function f!(z,zz)
 end
 f!(z,zz)
 @test (@allocated f!(z,zz)) == 0
+
+z .= 0.1
+@test z == VectorOfArray([fill(0.1, SVector{2, Float64}), fill(0.1, SVector{2, Float64})])

From 2939bc3bef80fd464a66fd17a5083099a2b9847e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Rackauckas <accounts@chrisrackauckas.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 08:18:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update interface_tests.jl

---
 test/interface_tests.jl | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/interface_tests.jl b/test/interface_tests.jl
index 4b2a9e35..985de004 100644
--- a/test/interface_tests.jl
+++ b/test/interface_tests.jl
@@ -152,3 +152,9 @@ f!(z,zz)
 
 z .= 0.1
 @test z == VectorOfArray([fill(0.1, SVector{2, Float64}), fill(0.1, SVector{2, Float64})])
+
+function f2!(z)
+    z .= 0.1
+end
+f2!(z)
+@test (@allocated f2!(z)) == 0