Hi,

2011/11/10 Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>:
> "Ronald S. Bultje" <[email protected]> writes:
>> 2011/11/10 Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>:
>>> Sean McGovern <[email protected]> writes:
>>>> valgrind is not fond of the pointer math in hScale_altivec_real(),
>>>
>>> This is a weird description.  Valgrind never complains about pointer
>>> maths as such, only about actual memory accesses.  I'm guessing it has
>>> to do with loading from an unaligned array, which will overread the end
>>> up to a 16-byte aligned position.
>>
>> The array is aligned. Doesn't it just read 32 pixels at once, i.e. the
>> FFALIGN(width, 16) should be changed to 32?
>
> The function is doing unaligned loads.  Maybe it doesn't need to.

I see. OK, patch is fine then. Maybe add a comment that the +16 is to
account for buggy altivec overreads. The x86 code does fine without
that...

Ronald
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