Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 3DNow fir test failing under debian with latest unstable updates

[Krzysztof Kamieniecki]

Quoting Eric Blossom <address@hidden>:

> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:44:58AM -0400, Krzysztof Kamieniecki wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > It seems like something may have broken in the 3Dnow fir code (on Debian 
> > Unstable), it may be GNURadio or it may be GCC. Has anybody seen this?
> > 
> > 
> > SSE seems to be faster on this processor anyways, is there a recommended 
> > way of selecting SSE over 3Dnow! ?
> 
> The test code has an alignment problem under gcc 4.x (that we should fix...)
> When run within the normal gnu radio framework, the alignment
> constraint is met and the right answer is computed.
> 

What would be the prefered way of fixing this, #pragma (which might cause
problems for anyone who does not use GCC), allocate some extra space and the
add a pointer to the proper aligned starting point (is there a library for this
somewhere?), or some other way?


<snip>