D3DXMATRIXA16 Structure

Defines a 16-byte aligned matrix.

Syntax

typedef struct _D3DXMATRIXA16 : public D3DXMATRIX
{
    _D3DXMATRIXA16();
    _D3DXMATRIXA16( CONST FLOAT * f);
    _D3DXMATRIXA16( CONST D3DMATRIX& m);
    _D3DXMATRIXA16( FLOAT _11, FLOAT _12, FLOAT _13, FLOAT _14,
                    FLOAT _21, FLOAT _22, FLOAT _23, FLOAT _24,
                    FLOAT _31, FLOAT _32, FLOAT _33, FLOAT _34,
                    FLOAT _41, FLOAT _42, FLOAT _43, FLOAT _44 );
    void* operator new(size_t s);
    void* operator new[](size_t s);

    // The two operators below are not virtual operators. If you cast
    //   to D3DXMATRIX, do not delete using them
    void operator delete(void* p);
    void operator delete[](void* p);

    struct _D3DXMATRIXA16& operator=(CONST D3DXMATRIX& rhs);
} _D3DXMATRIXA16;

Members

Remarks

A 16-byte aligned matrix, when used by Direct3D extensions (D3DX) math functions, has been optimized for improved performance on Intel Pentium 4 processors. Matrices are aligned independent of where they are created: on the program stack, in the heap, or in global scope. Alignment is accomplished using __declspec(align(16)), which works with Microsoft?Visual C++?.NET and with Visual C++ 6.0 only when the processor pack is installed. Unfortunately, there is no way to detect the processor pack, so byte alignment is turned on by default only with Visual C++ .NET.

Vectors and quaternions are not byte aligned in D3DX. When using vectors and quaternions with D3DX math functions, use _declspec(align(16)) to generate byte aligned vectors and quaternions, because they will perform significantly better. The definition of _declspec is shown here.

#define _ALIGN_16 __declspec(align(16))

Other compilers interpret D3DXMATRIXA16 as D3DXMATRIX. Using this structure on a compiler that does not actually align the matrix can be problematic because it will not expose bugs that ignore alignment. For example, if a D3DXMATRIXA16 object is inside a structure or class, a memcpy  might be done with tight packing (ignoring 16-byte boundaries). This would cause build breaks if the compiler were to sometime add matrix aligning.

Structure Information

Header	d3dx9math.h
Minimum availability	DirectX 9.0
Minimum operating systems	Windows 2000, Windows 98