Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler Developer Guide and Reference

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Date 3/22/2024
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Data Alignment

Memory operations using the Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions should be performed on 16-byte-aligned data whenever possible. Memory operations using the Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions should be performed on 32-byte-aligned data whenever possible.

F32vec4 and F64vec2 object variables are properly aligned by default. Note that floating point arrays are not automatically aligned. To get 16-byte alignment, you can use the alignment __declspec:

__declspec( align(16) ) float A[4];