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5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Lasse Collin
524c2f12c7 tuklib_integer.m4: Optimize the check order.
The __builtin byteswapping is the preferred one so check for it first.
2020-02-21 01:24:18 +02:00
Lasse Collin
77bc5bc6dd Revise tuklib_integer.h and .m4.
Add a configure option --enable-unsafe-type-punning to get the
old non-conforming memory access methods. It can be useful with
old compilers or in some other less typical situations but
shouldn't normally be used.

Omit the packed struct trick for unaligned access. While it's
best in some cases, this is simpler. If the memcpy trick doesn't
work, one can request unsafe type punning from configure.

Because CRC32/CRC64 code needs fast aligned reads, if no very
safe way to do it is found, type punning is used as a fallback.
This sucks but since it currently works in practice, it seems to
be the least bad option. It's never needed with GCC >= 4.7 or
Clang >= 3.6 since these support __builtin_assume_aligned and
thus fast aligned access can be done with the memcpy trick.

Other things:
  - Support GCC/Clang __builtin_bswapXX
  - Cleaner bswap fallback macros
  - Minor cleanups
2019-12-31 00:18:24 +02:00
Lasse Collin
e5f13a6656 tuklib_integer: Autodetect support for unaligned access on ARM.
The result is used as the default for --enable-unaligned-access.
The test should work with GCC and Clang.
2019-06-01 18:46:54 +03:00
Lasse Collin
b13a781833 Build: Replace obsolete AC_HELP_STRING with AS_HELP_STRING. 2014-11-17 18:52:21 +02:00
Lasse Collin
ebfb2c5e1f Use a tuklib module for integer handling.
This replaces bswap.h and integer.h.

The tuklib module uses <byteswap.h> on GNU,
<sys/endian.h> on *BSDs and <sys/byteorder.h>
on Solaris, which may contain optimized code
like inline assembly.
2009-10-04 22:57:12 +03:00