Re: SIMD under LDC

[Igor via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 11 September 2017 at 11:55:45 UTC, Igor wrote:

In the meantime can anyone tell me how to add an attribute to a 
function only if something is defined, since this doesn't work:

version(USE_SIMD_WITH_LDC) {
  import ldc.attributes;
  @target("ssse3")
} void funcThatUsesSIMD() {
  ...
  version(LDC) {
    import ldc.gccbuiltins_x86;
    c = __builtin_ia32_pshufb128(c, *simdMasks);
  } else {
    c = __simd(XMM.PSHUFB, c, *simdMasks);
  }
  ...
}

Regarding the crash in debug mode the problem was that my masks 
variable wasn't properly aligned and I guess the best I can do 
with the attribute is this:

version(LDC) import ldc.attributes;
else private struct target { string specifier; }
@target("ssse3")
void funcThatUsesSIMD() {...}