Comment 11 for bug 539632

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Nikodemus Siivola (nikodemus) wrote : Re: [Bug 539632] Re: simd woes

> Lovely.  I'm surprised it doesn't work with -fPIC and _mm_malloc; I
> don't think stack alignment should matter in that case.  With the
> aligned local variable, it's obvious that GCC's generating code that
> assumes 16-byte alignment of the stack.

It seems this has been the case since GCC 2.95.1:

 http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9909.2/0563.html