On 10/2/07, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >
> > Yes I do see the 0RCR or 0000R case.  For example when I change the QA
> code
> > to use stack allocation for the input  (uncommenting a piece of code
> that
> > was originally there, lines 110 and 111 in the QA code from trunk) the
> check
> > will fail.
>
> OK, I'm not surprised by that.  I wouldn't consider that a problem,
> unless we get in the habit of calling this with stack allocated
> input.  It could of course be worked around with an attribute((...))
> on the array definition.


agreed.  But I am not sure placing a restriction (no stack allocation) makes
sense.


> In the production code, I.e., where you are seeing problems (was it
> around gri_mmse_fir_interpolator?), do you see the alignment
> problem occur?


In the production code the "input" is declared in gr_mpsk_receiver_cc.h line
300

gr_complex d_dl[2*DLLEN];

http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/trunk/gnuradio-core/src/lib/general/gr_mpsk_receiver_cc.h



If so, I think we should fix the caller.  If the calling site is using
> stack or heap allocated data, we should fix it there.  If it's using
> input passed to it by "work" or "general_work", they are already
> aligned.  In any case, we should add a check at the site of the call
> to the SSE code that checks the alignment and raises an exception in
> the bad cases.  Of course the SSE code could be modified to handle the
> other two alignment cases, but I'd like to know the performance cost
> of doing it that way before committing to that path.


I agree.  A check in the SSE code will be required if addressed by a caller
fix,
else someone in the future will repeat the same effort we are going through
today.


Summary question: is there an alignment problem when called from the
> non-QA code?  If so, where?


Yes
Line 300 of gr_mpsk_receiver_cc.h



Tim

> Eric
>
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