I entirely agree. There definitely should be a PR for this, if there isn't
already.
dorit
"Michael James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2006 22:03:47:
> Hello Dorit,
>
> Thank you for the list of references.
>
> What I gathered from reading this is that alignment attributes applied
> to th
Hello Dorit,
Thank you for the list of references.
What I gathered from reading this is that alignment attributes applied
to the base element of an array are causing problems for other
legitimate uses of this attribute. It is basically stupid to specify
the base type of an array be aligned becau
On Nov 4, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Michael James wrote:
Does anyone have a suggestion?
#define SSE __attribute__((aligned (16)))
typedef float matrix_sub_t[1024] SSE;
typedef matrix_sub_t matrix_t[100];
matrix_t a, b, c;
void calc(matrix_sub_t * restrict ap,
matrix_sub_t * restrict bp,
Unfortunately there's no way to specify alignment attribute of pointers in
GCC - the syntax was allowed in the past but not really supported
correctly, and then entirely disallowed (by this patch
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-04/msg02284.html). This issue was
discussed in details in these
Hello,
I have been playing with gcc's new (to me) auto vectorization
optimizations. I have a particular loop for which I have made external
provisions to ensure that the data is 16-byte aligned. I have tried
everything I can think of to give gcc the hint that it is operating on
aligned data, but
