On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 19:21 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > Hi Peter! > > Do you happen to remember why the audio buffers in run_mix_test() in > src/tests/cpu-mix-test.c are forced to have 8-byte alignment? I plan to > replace the stack-allocated buffers with regular memblocks, and the > memblock backing memory is only aligned to 4 bytes on 32-bit machines. > It's possible to still have the old alignment behaviour, but that > requires extra code, and if 4-byte alignment is equally fine, then I'd > prefer to avoid the extra code. Also, why is the alignment so carefully controlled? All tests are run on a buffer that begins one sample after the 8-byte alignment boundary. Is this done to catch bugs related to weird (but valid) sample alignments? -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
