<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2013 19:02, Walter Bright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter@digitalmars.com" target="_blank">walter@digitalmars.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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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But why should this matter?<br>
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People use such constructs to support SIMD code, which requires 16 byte alignment.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra">Is this expected for all shared types? Or just shared structs.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>-- <br>Iain Buclaw<br><br>*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
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