Re: user-defined alignment in gfortran

On Tue, 29 May 2007 00:22:30 +0000 (UTC), Timo Schneider
<timos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in <slrnf5ms51.2q2.timos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

How do I tell gfortran to allign a complex*16 array at 16 byte
boundaries? This is necessary on the Cell BE architecture for being able
to do DMA transfer. In C I can write __attribute__((aligned(16))) and
it works. How can I do that with gfortran?

I wouldn't think you'd have to. I'd expect it to happen
automagically. ...or are you trying to align things up within a derived
type? Usual advice in that case is to assign your type/structure from
the largest elements down to the smallest, with character*? at the end.

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