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

[Bernd Mueller]

Daniël Mantione wrote:
> 
> 
> Op Tue, 26 Feb 2008, schreef Florian Klaempfl:
> 
>> Daniël Mantione schrieb:
>>>
>>>
>>> Op Tue, 26 Feb 2008, schreef Vincent Snijders:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>
>> Isn't this used to read a font file?
> 
> You are right. Therefore, the "unaligned" pseudo function is the proper 
> solution.

the main affected routines are unpack and decode. Both routines were 
called for every single character (only for a stroked font) via 
OutTextXYDefault. So speed is not unimportant ;-)

Regards, Bernd.