IWMMXT vector type alignment
Richard Earnshaw
Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
Mon Mar 15 11:46:00 GMT 2004
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.
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