[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Mask misaligned exception on K10

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Sun Mar 9 19:56:20 CET 2008


On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:13:40PM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> 2008/3/9, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>:
> > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:21:00PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > > I'm in favor of this patch and I think it should be enabled on
> > > releases and disabled on debug builds. Until somebody writes native
> > > K10 asm.
> >
> > How is writing native K10 asm in any way relevant? I don't think that
> > K10 needs this any more than other processors, it is just the first
> > processor to have an "sweep it under the rug"-flag?
> 
> You can write load executive instructions instead of using a movdqu
> beforehand then.

Well, that obviously is a reason why it may be necessary _when_ someone
writes native K10 asm, but not a reason to enable it _until_ someone
does that.



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