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From: Manish Regmi <regmi.manish@gmail.com>
To: Ankit Jain <ankitjain1580@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: uint8_t mean8[8] __attribute__ ((aligned (32))), *mp;
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:24:09 +0545	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <652016d304112623391e36a202@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041126184015.11326.qmail@web52906.mail.yahoo.com>

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:40:15 +0000 (GMT), Ankit Jain
<ankitjain1580@yahoo.com> wrote:
> if somebody can tell me what this __attribute__ is
> doing
> 
> what kind of alignement is this
> 
> uint8_t  mean8[8] __attribute__ ((aligned (32))),
> *mp;
> 
> thanks
> 
> ankit jain
> 

__attribute__ and aligned()  are a gcc builtin.

aligned(32) generates 32 byte aligned address. so that data is stored
on 32 byte aligned address.

This is done for performance reasons. 

see gcc manual for more details.

regards manish

-- 
Manish Regmi
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-27  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-26 18:40 uint8_t mean8[8] __attribute__ ((aligned (32))), *mp; Ankit Jain
2004-11-27  7:39 ` Manish Regmi [this message]

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