On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> Hi guys, > > We found the root of those "unaligned loads", it was in canon.c > (http://www.enlightenment.org/viewvc/e17/libs/epsilon/src/lib/exiftags/canon.c?hideattic=1&r1=1.2&r2=1.3), > with a patch tilman applied in order to reduce relocations due lots of > strings requiring it at load time. > > The problem, according to a Red Hat gcc compiler engineer friend of > mine, is that that construction is not valid according to 6.7.2.1/18 > of C99-TC2 and GCC should not allow that, so it's both a bug with GCC > and canon.c. > > canon.c could be fixed and still do few relocations by using one huge > string with \0 as separators and place pointers to segments of this > string on the struct. But it's a pain to do. > > So, I'd like to ask those who are using this exiftags support from > Epsilon. I really don't think this should be in epsilon anyway... the > only use of it in CVS is at esmart_thumb... and it's about > orientation, which is a standard tag... So I request permission to > remove all this exiftags stuff, if required I can add the code to find > out orientation support and generate already rotated images later. > This should make things a lot simpler, smaller and faster to start. > > comments? may I remove? I have contacted tilman on irc. No answer from him yet, but if you can wait some hours, or a day, so that he can answer regards Vincent ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
