Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:14:31 +0100
From: Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Byte Alignment for P3 SIMD
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On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 06:24:06PM -0500, Chris K Cockrum <chris AT cockrum DOT net> wrote:
> Is it possible to declare an array that is 16 byte aligned using C

No, but you can do it using a gcc extension called __attribute__
((aligned)).  Just look it up in the gcc manual.

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