[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] h264 luma interpolation 8x8 for altivec

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hello,

On 6/26/07, Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> wrote:
> Mauricio Alvarez wrote:
> > part2: removes alignment correction of the destination pointers in
> > luma_16x6
> > interpolations. As I mentioned before I have made a test and these pointers
> > are always aligned to 128-bit- The only source of misalignment (with
> > respect
> > to 128-bit) is the variable block size, but in the 16x16 case the
> > destination is always aligned.
>
> Ok

If in all cases these
IMHO, it would be a good idea to add a code to allow an easy test of
these alignment thingies in case we need to do some debug.

I'd like to add smth like this
#ifdef DEBUG_ALIGNMENT
#define ASSERT_ALIGNED(ptr) assert(!((unsigned long)ptr&0x0000000F));
#else ASSERT_ALIGNED(ptr) 0;
#endif

and add ASSERT_ALIGNED() wherever we were handling unaligned memory accesses.

That way, if for some reason a user experiences corruptions, we can
advise him to test for alignment by defining DEBUG_ALIGNMENT.

So, what do you guys think?

Guillaume
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