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Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 03:02:09 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: vloadu_emu()

On 08/09/15 16:33, Lei Zhang wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2015, at 8:10 PM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>>
>> magnum,
>>
>> Do we really need to use the comma operator here? -
>>
>> 		return (memcpy(buf, addr, MEM_ALIGN_SIMD), vload(buf));
>>
>> I think not.  I suggest that we change this to:
>>
>> 		memcpy(buf, addr, MEM_ALIGN_SIMD);
>> 		return vload(buf);
>>
>> With the comma operator, I first misread this code as returning pointer
>> to a buffer on the stack (would be a bug), and only then noticed the
>> vload() on the same line.
>
>
> That's my fault... I can take care of it.

You never did. I now committed this version:

	return vload(memcpy(buf, addr, sizeof(vtype)));

magnum

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