Isn't this that?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj620901.aspx


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Kai Tietz <ktiet...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't.  At least not as compiler-builtin.
>
> 2015-09-17 19:47 GMT+02:00 NightStrike <nightstr...@gmail.com>:
>> How does visual studio support AVX?
>>
>> On Sep 12, 2015 6:40 AM, "Kai Tietz" <ktiet...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> first thanks for interesting in this subject, but sadly I have
>>> disappoint you about it, I fear.  The cause for the inability to align
>>> to 32-byte alignment is neither to seek in gcc, nor in mingw-w64
>>> itself.  It is a consequence of the SEH-information required by the
>>> x64 ABI (see here as reference either msdn, or ibm's IA64
>>> exception-specification).  Sadly there is no way to express by it any
>>> kind of stack-alignment.  So it is impossible to write code, which
>>> brings AVX to proper stack-location within x64-ABI.  The ABI itself
>>> makes sure that on function-entry stack has a 16-byte alignment, so
>>> 64-bit sse-registers can be stored aligned.  Another weakness in this
>>> prologue-description used by x64 is that register with more then
>>> 64-bit width can't be expressed.   This is a reason why the upper 8
>>> bytes of a ymm-register are treated as volatile.
>>>
>>> Only way to work-a-round that is to do manual alignment of function,
>>> and making sure that you won't try to unwind over such a function.
>>> The mentioned prologue/epilogue script on stack-overflow article seems
>>> to do exactly this.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kai Tietz
>>>
>>> 2015-09-11 23:53 GMT+02:00 Gabe Al-Ghalith <algh0...@umn.edu>:
>>> > Please see:
>>> >
>>> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5983389/how-to-align-stack-at-32-byte-boundary-in-gcc
>>> >
>>> > and
>>> >
>>> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32213338/gcc-vector-extensions-avx2-builtin-shuffle-crashes-when-m64-is-used
>>> >
>>> > Basically, AVX (since 2011) and now Skylake Xeon (with AVX-512) will be
>>> > completely unusable on Windows. Please fix this!
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Gabe
>>> >
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