Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:49:43 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Michal <wapex AT silesia DOT top DOT pl>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Alignment
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On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Michal wrote:

> shure my ineer loop's data aren't aligned properly. I want to align them
> on 32 byte boundary so my inner would have less cash misses. 16 byte
> boundary was just an exaple. It would be nice to have authomaticly
> aligned data.

It *is* aligned automatically, it just doesn't take into account the 
specifics of the cache operation.

Btw, I'm not at all sure that the effect is so dramatic.