Good point, I have removed it. I put it in because I wanted an easy way to test that PETSc double arrays are always 8 byte aligned (and the unaligned struct values were giving me lots of false alarms). I guess we can test for double align on x86_64 systems. Barry The IBM BlueGene doesn't like 4 byte aligned doubles and sends a bus error after a certain number are generated, Thus I was motivated to make PETSc a bit clearer on that. On Nov 12, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
Satish,
gcc supports the option -malign-double on some systems. Please add it to the flags that configure checks for c and c++ and have it added if it exists.
Definitely -1. Why are you asking for this? On x86_64 this is the default. In i386, this flag is likely going to break ABI's.
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