> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:50:32PM -0700, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> > I noticed that vectors are always aligned based on their size, i.e. an
> > 8 byte vector has an aligment of 8 bytes, 16 byte vectors an alignment
> > of 16, a 256 byte vector an alignment of 256, etc.
> >
> > Is this really inten
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:50:32PM -0700, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> I noticed that vectors are always aligned based on their size, i.e. an
> 8 byte vector has an aligment of 8 bytes, 16 byte vectors an alignment
> of 16, a 256 byte vector an alignment of 256, etc.
>
> Is this really intended?
Yes.
I noticed that vectors are always aligned based on their size, i.e. an
8 byte vector has an aligment of 8 bytes, 16 byte vectors an alignment
of 16, a 256 byte vector an alignment of 256, etc.
Is this really intended?
I looked in stor-layout.c and found:
/* Always naturally align vectors
