[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] increase alignment for DCT block arrays to 16

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:56:34PM -0400, Alexander Strange wrote:
> Some decoders (MJPEG, WMV2) have their DCT block arrays aligned to 8 bytes, 
> which causes obvious problems with an SSE2 IDCT. Either one of the attached 
> patches fixes it; I wasn't sure if there would be problems with the first 
> method, so I did it two ways.
>
> Method 1 - As with Altivec/MMI, redefine DECLARE_ALIGNED_8 and STRIDE_ALIGN 
> to be 16. This has some other nice properties, since I won't have to assume 
> picture pointers are only 8-byte aligned outside ffmpeg. It also means that 
> nobody else can introduce a new decoder and have it break under SSE2.
>
> Method 2 - Just change the problematic DECLARE_ALIGNED_8 to _16.

Method 2.

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