Eljay - Wow, that's terrible news if true. But surely thousands of people are writing sse code... how do they make it work? Do I need to switch to the intel compiler/linker? Or is there a way to tell ld to allow larger alignment sizes? Are there other linkers available for (free) use with gcc? Thanks for all your help, Brian On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:28:44 -0600, Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > >Perhaps it is because my function is inline that gcc is unable to align > these variables properly? > > Hmmm, perhaps. But I suspect that it is the linker's fault. > > > In any case, this is disturbing behavior. Is there some rule I'm not > aware of? > > Yes. The rule is "You can specify aligned(16), but if the best that the > linker supports is aligned(8), you'll get aligned(8) and not the requested > aligned(16)". > > The linker is not part of GCC, it's part of GNU's binutils (or, I suppose, > one provided from somewhere else). > > >Perhaps this is a bug that has been fixed since 3.3.5? > > Hmmmm, I doubt it. But that is a possibility I cannot discount out of hand. > > HTH, > --Eljay > >
