"Ronald S. Bultje" <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > 2011/7/3 Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>: >> The AES and DES functions currently require, but do not document it, >> 8-byte alignment for input and output buffers. This is causing the AES >> test to fail on SPARC. >> >> What shall we do about this? I can see two options: >> >> 1. Document the requirement and fix all internal uses to ensure it is >> met (none currently do). >> >> 2. Change the crypto code to allow arbitrarily aligned buffers (easy). > > I prefer 1, but don't strongly object to 2.
The performance impact of allowing unaligned buffers should be minimal, so I don't see much reason to place this extra burden on users. -- Måns Rullgård [email protected] _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
