Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Joe Buck wrote: | > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:42:03PM -0800, Steve Ellcey wrote: | > | >>The simplest solution would probably be to ignore __aligned__ attributes | >>completely when we have an array. Or to do the change you suggested for | >>the vector tests and have the attribute attached to the array and not | >>the element type. | > Another possibility is to treat the alignment attribute as applying | > to the | > array as a whole (that is, the array is aligned to a multiple of 16 bytes, | > but the elements aren't), perhaps with a warning that this use is | > deprecated. I propose this because the tests suggest that this use is | > common enough that it appears in tests. | | If there is a lot of code out there that does this, that might indeed | be necessary, ugly though it would be.
Consider allocation of static storage, properly aligned for specific types. We even have a TR functionality for that. -- Gaby
