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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