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From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:28:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87A3D742-5B8B-4F6B-805B-67AB8B4ECFF5@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfdmlgzx.fsf@gmail.com>

30 mars 2023 kl. 11.34 skrev Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>:

> but even if unaligned access is normally permitted by a machine, it is
> still undefined behavior to dereference an unaligned pointer.

That's not necessarily a problem; we have plenty of formally undefined behaviour. What's important is whether we can be confident that it works.

> Instead, HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS and UNALIGNED_LOAD_SIZE should be
> removed and memcpy used instead:

No, this isn't something we should be doing at all unless the platform allows fast unaligned access.

Ideally we shouldn't do any of this nonsense but I haven't worked out how to get the autovectorisers to kick in.

> Emacs currently
> crashes when built with various compilers performing pointer alignment
> checks.

Which compilers, exactly?




  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-30 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-30  9:34 HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Robert Pluim
2023-03-30 10:26 ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-30 11:09   ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Sam James
2023-03-30 12:18   ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Arsen Arsenović
     [not found]     ` <87v8ihu3t8.fsf@yahoo.com>
2023-03-31  7:15       ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Robert Pluim
2023-03-31  7:45       ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-31 17:29     ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Mattias Engdegård
2023-03-31 20:13       ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-30 10:28 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2023-03-30 11:38 ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Vibhav Pant
2023-03-31 16:57   ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Mattias Engdegård
2023-03-31 17:59     ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-31 18:03       ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Mattias Engdegård
2023-03-31 18:12         ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01  0:45         ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Po Lu
2023-04-01  5:43           ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01  6:31             ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Po Lu
2023-04-01  6:39               ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01  7:42                 ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Mattias Engdegård
2023-04-01  8:19                   ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01  9:17                     ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Po Lu
2023-04-01 11:25                       ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01 12:59                         ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Arsen Arsenović
2023-04-01 13:33                           ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-01 15:22                             ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Arsen Arsenović
2023-04-01 16:22                               ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-02  0:50                                 ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Po Lu
2023-04-02  0:48                             ` HAVE_FAST_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Po Lu

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