After the instruction set updates for MSVC the error below popped up:
..\lib\eal\x86\include\rte_vect.h(82): error C2059: syntax error: '('
The issue is that MSVC does not allow __rte_aligned(RTE_X86_ZMM_SIZE).
It only accepts numbers that are power of 2. So, even though
RTE_X86_ZMM_SIZE represents a number that is a power of two it cannot
be used directly.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/align-cpp?view=msvc-170
Signed-off-by: Andre Muezerie <andre...@linux.microsoft.com>
---
lib/eal/x86/include/rte_vect.h | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/eal/x86/include/rte_vect.h b/lib/eal/x86/include/rte_vect.h
index 70c78e9b77..0a51c539a4 100644
--- a/lib/eal/x86/include/rte_vect.h
+++ b/lib/eal/x86/include/rte_vect.h
@@ -79,7 +79,16 @@ __extension__ ({ \
#define RTE_X86_ZMM_SIZE (sizeof(__m512i))
#define RTE_X86_ZMM_MASK (RTE_X86_ZMM_SIZE - 1)
-typedef union __rte_aligned(RTE_X86_ZMM_SIZE) __rte_x86_zmm {
+/*
+ * MSVC does not allow __rte_aligned(RTE_X86_ZMM_SIZE). It only accepts
+ * numbers that are power of 2. So, even though RTE_X86_ZMM_SIZE represents a
+ * number that is a power of two it cannot be used directly.
+ * Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/align-cpp?view=msvc-170
+ * The static assert below ensures that RTE_X86_ZMM_SIZE is equal to what is
+ * used in the __rte_aligned() expression.
+ */
+static_assert(RTE_X86_ZMM_SIZE == 64, "Unexpected size of __m512i");
+typedef union __rte_aligned(64) __rte_x86_zmm {
__m512i z;
ymm_t y[RTE_X86_ZMM_SIZE / sizeof(ymm_t)];
xmm_t x[RTE_X86_ZMM_SIZE / sizeof(xmm_t)];
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