Altivec + 16 byte alignment

[Mike Stump]

On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:06 AM, Richard Kenner wrote:
> My question is this: suppose a user says "I need this variable or type
> aligned to an N bit boundary".  How can you tell, as a function of N,
> whether you can do that or not?

I think the answer is the minimum of MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT, 
STACK_BOUNDARY and BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT, if there are no bugs.  If there 
are bugs, you can't, not without fixing those bugs.