Implementation's I've used and worked on always do aligned allocations manually. Typically the hidden and real sizes of the allocation are put into the memory allocation itself and the returned pointer is incremented a few bytes. The downside to this is that you must be strict in using the aligned free routine also. corey On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:09:27 -0600, Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > >
