I don't allocate the memory, I write a DLL and memory is handed to me as a byte array. 2016-10-26 0:10 GMT+02:00 Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Balázs Oroszi <orobalage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Usually, you go the other way: you either (1) align to 16 for stack > based allocations, or (2) allocate on the heap, which has 16-byte > alignment. It allows you the benefit of vectorization and AVX. > > You also have to avoid the unaligned data accesses and type punning. > The undefined behavior sanitizers are usually very good about finding > them at runtime. Just compile with -fsanitize=undefined, and then run > your test suite. > > Jeff