[Speex-dev] SSE bug on Win32 with GCC 4.2.1

[Jean-Marc Valin]

> I recently found a .. weird bug on Win32 SSE with GCC 4.2.1.
> 
> In libspeex/cb_search_sse.h, the following union is used:
> 
> union {
>    float __a[4];
>    __m128 __v;
>  } __u;
> 
> For some odd reason, this particular version of GCC will not 16-byte
> align the union. IE; the alignment requirement of __v isn't propagated.
> Changing it into this:
> 
>  union {
>    float __a[4];
>    __m128 __v;
>  } __u __attribute__((aligned(16)));
> 
> And it works again. This is definitely a GCC bug, but I thought I'd
> mention it here in case others have similar problems.

That's, euh... "interesting". Did you submit a bug report to the gcc
team? I guess I could add your code as a workaround (do you know what
version started supporting that attribute?) until it's fixed. I just
find it amazing how many bugs in gcc Speex has managed to trigger. I
believe this is at least the third one related to SSE (one in 3.4, one
in 4.1).

	Jean-Marc