Hi Brian,
>Wow, that's terrible news if true.
Take it with a grain of salt. I'm just speculating.
You might want to try looking at the assembly output of the compiler, using the -S switch. It might shed some light as to what's going on under the covers, especially pertaining to alignment.
>But surely thousands of people are writing sse code... how do they make it work?
I presume by taking measures to assure the SSE structs are properly aligned.
>Do I need to switch to the intel compiler/linker?
I do not know.
>Or is there a way to tell ld to allow larger alignment sizes?
I'm not sure -- perhaps it is an option when ld is configure'd and make'd.
>Are there other linkers available for (free) use with gcc?
I do not know.
HTH, --Eljay
