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ALIGN extension to ALLOCATE

michael-a-carr7
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‎10-01-2002 03:01 PM
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Some time ago I suggested an extension to the ALLOCATE command whereby the programmer could request a particular alignment of the allocated memory (i.e. ALIGN=16 allocates an array aligned on a 16 kB boundary, ALIGN=32 does the same for a 32 kB boundary, etc). This would help greatly when developing for maximum performance in conjunction with the Math Kernal Libraries, etc. At the time, Steve Lionel said that it was a good idea and that he would forward it on to the developers. Has there been any progress on this issue? It would help me greatly...
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Steven_L_Intel1
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‎10-01-2002 03:18 PM
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This is on our wish list, but no plans have been made yet to implement it. Sorry.

Steve
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james1
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‎10-01-2002 10:57 PM
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There are probably other ways to accomplish what you want, either by aligning statically defined variables, or by allocating a chunk of memory and using a cray pointer assigned to an appropriate address.

James
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