Re: Allocated aligned arrays

[Jeff Creem <jcreem@yahoo.com>]

Simon Wright wrote:
> "ldb" <louis@pittpatt.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>These are the actual indicies I would use (it's an image processing
>>algorithm that trims the edges). I'm not sure if the strange indices
>>could be causing the problem, but I cannot imagine it is.
>>
>>However, the three matricies, input, sam, and bob aren't necessarily
>>aligned (for certain input index ranges they are, by default, and some
>>times they are not. The alignment statement I am using seems to have no
>>effect).
> 
> 
> A little experiment here shows that GCC 4.0.0 on Darwin seems to work
> reasonably, but your problem is no doubt bigger.
> 
> What compiler/architecture? sounds like a bug to me -- I don't believe
> a compiler is (should be!) allowed to accept a pragma like this and
> then fail to honour it?
> 
> Note however RM 3.3(32):
> 
>    An implementation need not support specified Alignments that are
>    greater than the maximum Alignment the implementation ever returns
>    by default.


It seems like one could reasonably work around this (whether it is a bug 
or an implementation limit) with a user defined storage pool.