[cfe-dev] Alignment assumptions

[Marcel Keller via cfe-dev]

Hi,

The attached code segfaults with clang 3.8 and 4.0:

$ clang++ -g -O3 -mavx main.cpp A.cpp  ; ./a.out
Segmentation fault

The problem is in the following line:

     memset((__m256i*)dest, 0, length);

Removing the cast to __m256i* solves the problem. It seems that clang 
assumes that __m256i* is always aligned correctly, which is not the case 
in the code. Is that a bug in clang, or is that a mistake on my side? 
GCC does not cause a segfault.

Best regards,
Marcel
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