On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Chad Rosier <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
> Attached is a patch that enables a per target max vector alignment field 
> (e.g., 32-byte alignment for x86 due to AVX).  Currently, if no aligned 
> attribute is specified the alignment of a vector is inferred from its size.  
> Thus, very large vectors will be over-aligned with no benefit.  With this 
> patch in place the alignment will be the lesser of the size of the vector and 
> the target max alignment unless an aligned attribute is used.

It doesn't seem likely that x86 itself will go beyond 32-byte vectors,
but this sort of thing is hard to predict; a few years ago, it wasn't
obvious that x86 was going to introduce vectors with 32-byte
alignment.

-Eli

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