http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38011



Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:



           What    |Removed                     |Added

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED

         Resolution|                            |INVALID



--- Comment #2 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-03-27 
12:35:44 UTC ---

Not true - you aligned the pointer, not the data it points to.  There isn't

a good way to do that with an aligned attribute, the closest you can get at

is with



typedef double aligned_double __attribute__((aligned (16)));

void assignMultiplyVec(aligned_double* restrict a, aligned_double* restrict b,

                       double coef, unsigned count)

{

  for(unsigned i=0; i<count; i++) {

      a[i] = b[i]*coef;

  }

}



but that has the issue that a[1] is not aligned but technically you

still say so (the issue is that the array has no gaps according to

the C standard but the alignment of the element type is bigger than

its size ...).



So instead we now have an assume_aligned builtin which you can use like



void assignMultiplyVec(double* restrict a_, const double * restrict b_,

                       double coef, unsigned count)

{

  double* restrict a = __builtin_assume_aligned (a_, 16);

  double* restrict b = __builtin_assume_aligned (b_, 16);

  for(unsigned i=0; i<count; i++) {

    a[i] = b[i]*coef;

  }

}



which does not have this issue.

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