Mike -
Why is the library enforcing this? An ASSERT is used for a critical runtime
error where a function cannot proceed. This condition does not fall into this
category on any platform that I am aware of (although there might be a speed
penalty).
Tim
From: Kinney, Michael D [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:37 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [edk2] How to align auto variables?
Sathya,
Those ASSERT() statements in APIs that operate in Unicode strings with a
character type of CHAR16.
Is your string declared as a CHAR16 array? If it is, then the compiler should
align in 16-bot boundary automatically. The one exception is an CHAR16 array
in a packed structure. If you are using a packed structure, then you need to
order the fields or add padding fields as required to force proper alignment of
individual fields.
If you are using pointer math to compute a CHAR16 * into a buffer, then you are
responsible for alignment if the buffer data is not aligned. You may need to
copy contents of the buffer to a different buffer that is aligned.
Best regards,
Mike
From: Prakash, Sathya [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:19 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [edk2] How to align auto variables?
I am able to compile my code successfully with UDK but when I run my code I see
lot ASSERTS similar to ASSERT (((UINTN) String & BIT0) == 0);
I have used a static library in my code which is compiled in EDK1.6 (I need to
port that to UDK but for now I am keeping this way to do some basic testing)
I would like to know how to tell the compiler to align the char array allocated
in string to be aligned to avoid the ASSERT? Do I need to use
__declspec(align(#)) across all the variable definitions, can I pass it once as
a compile flag?
Thanks
Sathya
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