Aligning data in memory / on the stack

[bearophile]

Peter Alexander:

> Is there a way to align data on the stack? In particular, I want to 
> create an 16-byte aligned array of floats to load into XMM registers 
> using movaps, which is significantly faster than movups.

Yours is a legitimate desire. I remember Don asking for this several times, and I remember Walter answering it's not an easy thing to do. I don't remember the current status of this. If others here later don't give you a good enough answer I suggest you to ask again in the main D newsgroup.

Bye,
bearophile