[fpc-devel] Patch, font rendering on Arm-Linux devices.

[Yury Sidorov]

From: "Daniël Mantione" <daniel.mantione at freepascal.org>
> > Bernd Mueller schreef:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> the attached patch avoids misaligned data access (bus errors), 
> >> during font
> >> rendering (with the graph unit) on Arm-Linux devices.
> >>
> >
> > Instead of testing for arm cpu, you could use 
> > FPC_REQUIRES_PROPER_ALIGNMENT
> > too. So it is fixed for sparc as well.
>
> Well, packed records are usually used when speed is unimportant. If 
> the
> code is speed critical, packed should not be used for aby platform.
> Therefore I would like Bernd to consider the use of the 'unaligned'
> pseudo-function, ifdefs make code less readable.

The patch removes packed record for some platforms.
IMO packed can be removed for all platforms. It will gain some speed.

Yury.