Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Standard Edition: Programming Guide

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Date 4/22/2019
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5.9.3. Specifying the Alignment of a Struct

You may instruct the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Offline Compiler to set a specific alignment of a struct data structure.
To specify the struct alignment, insert the aligned(N) attribute prior to the kernel source code for a struct data structure.
For example:

struct __attribute__((aligned(2))) Context
{
   float param1;
   float param2;
   int param3;
   uint param4;
};
__kernel void algorithm(__global float * A, 
                        __global struct Context * restrict c)
{
   if ( c->param3 )
   {
      // Dereference through a pointer and so on
   }
}
For more information, refer to the Align a Struct with or without Padding section of the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Best Practices Guide.