On Sunday, 9 August 2020 at 09:58:18 UTC, Johan wrote:
On Sunday, 9 August 2020 at 01:03:51 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
The .alignof attribute of __vector(ubyte[32]) is 32 but
initializing an array of such vectors via an assignment to
.length has given me 16 byte alignment (and subsequent seg
faults which I suspect are related).
Is sub .alignof alignment expected here? IOW, do I have to
manually manage memory if I want alignments above 16?
Do you have a code example?
And what compiler are you using?
-Johan
At run.dlang.io recent runs of both dmd and lcd compilations of
the below revealed misalignment.
import std;
void main() @safe
{
alias V = __vector(ubyte[32]); // requires -mcpu=native or
other on cmd line
V[] va;
size_t misalignments;
foreach(N; 1..101) {
va.length = N;
const uptr = cast(ulong)va.ptr;
misalignments += (uptr % V.alignof) != 0;
}
writefln("misaligned %s per cent of the time", misalignments);
}