# HG changeset patch
# User Merten Sach <msach@mailbox.tu-berlin.de>
# Date 1324390109 -3600
# Node ID 6ba4c9d862324f9da01cc0ffccfb16b5b9fc7819
# Parent  5161414caa3e18c6e543a47c144e19ec7b2604df
VMS_defs.h: defines for aligning

diff -r 5161414caa3e -r 6ba4c9d86232 VMS_defs.h
--- a/VMS_defs.h	Tue Dec 20 15:04:06 2011 +0100
+++ b/VMS_defs.h	Tue Dec 20 15:08:29 2011 +0100
@@ -10,6 +10,15 @@
 #define	_VMS_DEFS_H
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 
+//===============================  Hardware  ===================================
+// This aligns the variable to a 256 byte boundary, therefore padding the gaps.
+// This is apparently not true for data on the stack. Which is I guess not an
+// issue because they are only used in the cores own coreloop
+#define CACHELINE_SIZE 256
+#define __align_to_cacheline__ __attribute__ ((aligned(CACHELINE_SIZE)))
+//aligns a pointer to cacheline. The memory area has to contain at least
+//CACHELINE_SIZE bytes more then needed
+//#define __align_adress(ptr) (void*)(((uintptr_t)(ptr))&((uintptr_t)(!0x0FF)))+256
 
 //===============================  Debug  ===================================
 //