/GRANULARITY=option /GRANULARITY=QUADWORD (D) Determines how much memory to effectively cache for memory reference by the combination of the compiler and the underlying system. For example, quadword granularity may require that the system cache quadword values in registers. If access to data in the same granularity unit occurs simultaneously, corruption (by storing back stale values) can occur. Granularity has two aspects: references inside a particular data segment and references between data segments. The options are: o BYTE o LONGWORD o QUADWORD The default is /GRANULARITY=QUADWORD.