19.11.2011 14:14, Jonas Maebe пишет:
On 19 Nov 2011, at 11:31, Sergei Gorelkin wrote:
Is it possible to declare a (SSE friendly) record or array type, so that local
variables of this type get aligned to e.g. 16 bytes?
I don't think so. For this, we'd probably need a separate vector type (possibly
using a modifier for array types, or with a new keyword). All ABIs for
architectures supporting vector processing also treat vectors as distinct
types. Such functionality is also required to finish the high level code
generator in the JVM branch for native targets (it has to be to distinguish
vectors from arrays at the tdef level).
Hm, that looks like two separate tasks: one is distinct vector type for ABIs, another one is
alignment of arbitrary types. The issue I've stumbled into is the TContext record (CPU context),
which contains only word and qword members, but has to be 16 byte aligned because it is used by SSE
instructions. In SDK it has a __declspec(align(16)) attribute, I guess we need something like that too.
Sergei
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