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Re: IWMMXT vector type alignment
- From: Richard Earnshaw <Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com>
- To: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:45:35 +0000
- Subject: Re: IWMMXT vector type alignment
- References: <200403151143.06080.paul@codesourcery.com>
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 11:43, Paul Brook wrote:
> In config/arm.h there is code to override the alignment of IWMMXT vector
> types.
>
> Specifically ADJUST_FIELD_ALIGN, DATA_ALIGNMENT, LOCAL_ALIGNMENT and a couple
> of other places explicitly give vector types 64-bit alignment.
>
> Is this necessary? These types/modes seem to have 64-bit alignment anyway.
>
> Paul
I suspect this is one of those gross hacks that I mentioned previously
that we want to get rid of now.
R.