[x264-devel] Why there is DECLARE_ALIGNED in x264

[王小静]

I am a newbie of source code of x264 and confused by the DECLARE_ALIGNED.
I don't know why these variables must be aligned to there boundaries?
Can anybody tell me the reason?
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