On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:25:37PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:11:33AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > > The problem, then, is that there's no way for the user to specify > > that we have an array whose beginning has, say, 16-byte alignment, > > but that after that, the elements have their ordinary sizes (meaning > > that subsequent elements are not aligned). > > We do. > char array[32] __attribute__ ((__aligned__ (16))); > > Tried HEAD/4.0/3.4/3.2/2.96-RH and it works in all of them.
But if an array is passed to a function, it decays to a pointer. How do we declare the type of the pointer, so we can write a function that works on, and is optimized for, an aligned array? That's what I meant when I said I didn't know how to declare it.
