sbc100 added a comment.

In D151820#4385536 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D151820#4385536>, @dschuff wrote:

>> I don't think it will since `__BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT__ >= 
>> XNN_ALLOCATION_ALIGNMENT` will remain true after this change.. so this 
>> change should have no effect on that code.
>
> I meant that when `__BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT__ >= XNN_ALLOCATION_ALIGNMENT` (which 
> was true before and will remain true), then XNNPack uses `__builtin_alloca()` 
> as the implementation of `XNN_SIMD_ALLOCA` (which presumably is for 
> allocating SIMD values). This change will reduce the alignment used by 
> `__builtin_alloca()` from 16 to 8, such that (I think) it is no longer 
> suitable for SIMD values.
>
> Maybe this is a bug in XNNPack (they should maybe be using 
> XNN_ALLOCATION_ALIGNMENT with a value suitable for SIMD?) but given that 
> BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT and alloca seem to be intended for any base type (including 
> SIMD) it wouldn't be surprising if someone else were depending on this too.

XNN_ALLOCATION_ALIGNMENT is 8 under webassembly, which apparently the alignment 
than xnnpack wants for webassemebly.  Using alloca for this is find both before 
and after this change since both 8 and 18 as fit this requirement.

> which... maybe this is just re-litigating the previous discussion, I don't 
> know. I wonder at what point our ABI should be treating SIMD values as 
> "normal" rather than rare.




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