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

Any thoughts ?

thanks,
helmut

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.

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