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Re: Structure Packing.

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jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> writes:
> Le 07/06/12 03:35, Keith Thompson a écrit :
>> Given that the two members are of the same type, it's very likely that
>> there will be no padding between them
>
> Not true, for instance for the x86 with
>
> struct s{
>    double var1;
>    double var2;
> };
>
> A compiler may align var2 to be 16 bytes after var1 so that accesses
> are always at a 16 byte boundary for performance reasons. The xmm
> registers (where all double data is stored in modern implementations)
> have a faster "aligned" access to double data instruction.

Hmm.  So the most efficient alignment for an 8-byte type is 16 bytes?
I find that odd.  (I'm not familiar with xmm.)

For what it's worth, gcc doesn't do this, at least by default. I know
that's just one data point.

> It can be argued that the comiler could store var1 and var2 in a
> single 16 byte sequence so that they could be loaded into a single xmm
> register but maybe for internal code generation reasons that would be
> not desired (risk of polluting the high/low part, etc, necessity of
> complex analysis to determine that the lower part and the higher part
> aren't destroyed by some operation, etc).

Do any C compilers actually do this?

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Structure Packing. John Kearney <dethrophes@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-06 17:27 -0700
  Re: Structure Packing. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-06-06 21:19 -0400
    Re: Structure Packing. Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2012-06-11 22:39 -0400
      Re: Structure Packing. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-12 09:21 -0400
        Re: Structure Packing. Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2012-06-12 11:51 -0400
          Re: Structure Packing. Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2012-06-12 18:37 +0200
            Re: Structure Packing. Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2012-06-12 15:06 -0400
              Re: Structure Packing. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-12 16:22 -0400
                Re: Structure Packing. Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2012-06-12 17:44 -0400
                Re: Structure Packing. Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2012-06-13 15:53 +0200
                Re: Structure Packing. Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-06-18 12:37 +0300
        Re: Structure Packing. Martin Shobe <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-12 16:22 +0000
          Re: Structure Packing. Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2012-06-12 15:24 -0400
            Re: Structure Packing. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-12 16:33 -0400
              Re: Structure Packing. Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2012-06-12 17:17 -0400
  Re: Structure Packing. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-06-06 18:35 -0700
    Re: Structure Packing. John Kearney <dethrophes@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-06 21:58 -0700
      Re: Structure Packing. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-06-06 23:54 -0700
        Re: Structure Packing. John Kearney <dethrophes@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-07 07:47 -0700
          Re: Structure Packing. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-06-07 12:39 -0400
    Re: Structure Packing. jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-07 11:14 +0200
      Re: Structure Packing. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-06-07 09:46 -0700
        Re: Structure Packing. John Kearney <dethrophes@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-07 11:57 -0700

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