You could use a STL allocator that would allow you to do the alignment,
but the question is how do you get that to the vector. There is no way
to pass an allocator to the current MixinVector so you are going to have
to modify osg to try this. It would be nice if the new MixinVector
class and all vectors that use it would allow for an allocator to be
used on the underlying vector, but I guess there has never been a need
for this yet.
Judd
David Spilling wrote:
Hi Gordon, Thibault,
Thanks for the replies regarding the contiguity of the memory in a
std::vector. That at least solves half of the problem.
Use &yourvector[0] to get a float* pointer to the beginning of the
array.
How do I define the vec4array so that &yourvector[0] is absolutely
aligned, i.e. a multiple of (in my case) 16?
With a float array, on MS compilers, I would do __declspec(align(16))
float* myarray = new float[4 * MY_ARRAY_SIZE]. From what I understand,
and from the MSDN documentation
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/83ythb65.aspx) this is the
correct way to guarantee this. #pragma pack 16 doesn't always do what
you expect...
If I do __declspec(align(16)) Vec4Array* myarray = new Vec4Array, I'm
guaranteed that "myarray" is 16 byte aligned, but what about the
contents of the array? Especially if I do lots of ->push_back so that
the std::vector resizes and goes somewhere else. Even if I do
__declspec(align(16)) Vec4Array* myarary = new
Vec4Array(MY_ARRAY_SIZE) I don't think I'm guaranteed 16 byte
alignment of the first vector entry...
(I think the gcc equivalent to __declspec(align(X)) is __aligned__(X),
by the way).
Regards,
David
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