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Re: Altivec + 16 byte alignment

From: Gianni Mariani <gmariani at chaincast dot com>
To: gmariani at chaincast dot com
Cc: Gianni Tedesco <gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 06:49:03 -0800
Subject: Re: Altivec + 16 byte alignment
Organization: Chaincast, Inc
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Reply-to: gmariani at chaincast dot com

Gianni Mariani wrote:

Gianni Tedesco wrote:

This seems to work for global variables, but when allocated on the
stack, my structures end up mis-aligned (on to 8-byte boundaries) which
totally screws up the results of the altivec computation.

..

This is a problem with the malloc implementation.

I should read the question better next time ... *STACK* ...

....

Well, you could use alloca and simply align it yourself ....

Yours
Dipstick

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