[PATCH] D30810: Preserve vec3 type.

[JinGu Kang via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

jaykang10 added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D30810#702548, @ahatanak wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D30810#701141, @jaykang10 wrote:
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> > In https://reviews.llvm.org/D30810#701132, @ahatanak wrote:
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> > > Actually, it's not a mis-compile. The record layout shows that there is a padding before field f2 and f2 starts at byte 16. So using "store <4 x float>" doesn't overwrite the field.
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> > It depends on float3's alignment. I guess the float3's alignment is 16 on your target so there is a padding bytes before f2 to be aligned by 16. If you add __attribute__((packed)) on struct type, you could see overwrite.
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> I looked at ItaniumRecordLayoutBuilder to understand how __attribute__((packed)) affects the struct's layout.
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> If the number of elements of a vector is not a power of 2, ASTContext::getTypeInfoImpl rounds up the width and alignment to the next power of 2. So the size of float3 is 16 bytes. __attribute__((packed)) can change the alignment of float3, but it doesn't change its size, so there is a 4-byte padding between field f1 and f2.


Oops, I am sorry,  I was wrong. I did not imagine the size has same behavior with alignment. Thank you for pointing out it! :) Additionally, I wonder why the non-power-of-2 length vector's size has same behavior with alignment... Do you know something about the reason?


https://reviews.llvm.org/D30810