SIMD support...

[Manu]

On 6 January 2012 05:22, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 1/5/2012 6:25 PM, Manu wrote:
>
>> Are you talking about for parameter passing, or for local variable
>> assignment on
>> the stack?
>> For parameter passing, I understand the x32 problems with aligning the
>> arguments
>> (I think it's possible to work around though), but there should be no
>> problem
>> with aligning the stack for allocating local variables.
>>
>
> Aligning the stack. Before I say anything, I want to hear your suggestion
> for how to do it efficiently.
>

Perhaps I misunderstand, I can't see the problem?
In the function preamble, you just align it... something like:
  mov reg, esp ; take a backup of the stack pointer
  and esp, -16 ; align it

... function

  mov esp, reg ; restore the stack pointer
  ret 0
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