I'm a simd beginner, I've read this article about the topic (since I'm using a AVX2-compatible machine).
Now, I've read in this question to check if your pointer is aligned.
I'm testing it with this toy example main.cpp
:
#include <iostream>
#include <immintrin.h>
#define is_aligned(POINTER, BYTE_COUNT) \
(((uintptr_t)(const void *)(POINTER)) % (BYTE_COUNT) == 0)
int main()
{
float a[8];
for(int i=0; i<8; i++){
a[i]=i;
}
__m256 evens = _mm256_set_ps(2.0, 4.0, 6.0, 8.0, 10.0, 12.0, 14.0, 16.0);
std::cout<<is_aligned(a, 16)<<" "<<is_aligned(&evens, 16)<<std::endl;
std::cout<<is_aligned(a, 32)<<" "<<is_aligned(&evens, 32)<<std::endl;
}
And compile it with icpc -std=c++11 -o main main.cpp
.
The resulting printing is:
1 1
1 1
However, if I add thhese 3 lines before the 4 prints:
for(int i=0; i<8; i++)
std::cout<<a[i]<<" ";
std::cout<<std::endl;
This is the result:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 1
0 1
In particular, I don't understand that last 0
. Why is it different from the last printing? What am I missing?
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