[fpc-pascal] $CODEALIGN / Dynamic Arrays

[Jonas Maebe]

On 27 May 2010, at 09:47, Helmut Hartl wrote:

> Does the $CODEALIGN (http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progsu9.html 
> )
> directive influence dynamic array memory layout ?

No, that directive only influences static code and data layout.

> I need an an aligned dynamic array of vectors for SSE operations. If  
> the
> fpc dynamic array implementation supports alignment somehow I would  
> not
> need an own implementation of an allocator.

It doesn't support that. The proper way to support it would be to add  
some kind of vector data type to the compiler, whose rtti would  
indicate the alignment requirements (so the dynamic array allocation  
would take care of the alignment automatically).


Jonas