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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/5/2013 1:48 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2013 19:02, Walter Bright
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On 4/4/2013 9:57 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:<br>
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What exactly is this testing for? Should I even care
if it fails?<br>
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It *looks* like it is expecting the data to be aligned
to 16 bytes.<br>
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Yes.
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But why should this matter?<br>
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People use such constructs to support SIMD code, which
requires 16 byte alignment.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Is this expected for all shared types?
Or just shared structs.<br>
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It has nothing to do with it being shared or not.<br>
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