• Peter Alexander (16/16) Sep 16 2011 Can anyone help me with this?
• bearophile (4/7) Sep 16 2011 Yours is a legitimate desire. I remember Don asking for this several tim...

Peter Alexander <peter.alexander.au gmail.com> writes:

Can anyone help me with this?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7375165/aligning-stack-variables-in-d

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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.

e.g.

void foo()
{
     float[4] v = [1.0f, 2.0f, 3.0f, 4.0f];
     asm
     {
         movaps XMM0, v; // v must be 16-byte aligned for this to work.
         ...
     }
}

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

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