Use the _mm_malloc and _mm_free intrinsics to allocate and free aligned blocks of memory. These intrinsics are based on malloc and free, which are in the libirc.a library. The syntax for these intrinsics is as follows:
void* _mm_malloc (int size, int align)
void _mm_free (void *p)
The _mm_malloc routine takes an extra parameter, which is the alignment constraint. This constraint must be a power of two. The pointer that is returned from _mm_malloc is guaranteed to be aligned on the specified boundary.
Note
Memory that is allocated using _mm_malloc must be freed using _mm_free . Calling free on memory allocated with _mm_malloc or calling _mm_free on memory allocated with malloc will cause unpredictable behavior.