[x264-devel] unhandled exception in deblock using sse2

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Marcin Sokalski <msokalski at atsisa.com> wrote:
> Hi, im a total noob to x264, but i think there is
> a bug - unaligned stack in deblock asm procedure.
> It uses movdqword/movaps instruction which requires
> memory source/destination to be aligned on 16bytes
> boundary. And it isnt -> gives unhandled exception.
>
> Turning sse2 off, helps but its clear that it isnt solution :)

This is not a bug; this is intended.  If your compiler doesn't
properly maintain stack alignment like GCC does, such functions will
crash.  The most recent revision added a workaround for such crappy
compilers: disable all functions that rely on it.

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