[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/3] lavc: add a framework to fix alignment problems.

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ronald suggested on IRC that the only parts suffering from this are
>> the ASM DSP components, and we should just make checkasm tests for all
>> of them and let checkasm test the alignment they claim to support, but
>> alas this won't be done for months, if not years.
>
>
> This really isn't that complicated once we get the general design and goals
> explicitly documented.
>
> We test all kind of crazy stuff in checkasm, like xmm register clobbering.
> This is just another strange thing that can be done in generic code. We
> just need to decide what is OK so we know what to test.
>

I'm not worried about checkasm perfoming the test, but all DSP
components actually having tests.

- Hendrik