Hi,

2011/11/11 Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>:
> "Ronald S. Bultje" <[email protected]> writes:
>> 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.
>
> They are not buggy.  It's the only way to read unaligned data in
> altivec, so unless you consider altivec itself buggy, the code is
> correct provided it needs to handle unaligned buffers.

But it doesn't need to; convertData is guaranteed to be aligned. It
was allocated using av_malloc().

Ronald
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