dsputil: Drop ff_check_alignment() function

The function is supposed to confirm that the compiler provided enough
alignment, but in practice it is only run in certain code paths and
insufficient alignment problems are restricted to legacy compilers.

3 files changed, 0 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/libavcodec/dsputil.c b/libavcodec/dsputil.c
index 6f44f9a7cc..8dbb18c867 100644
--- a/libavcodec/dsputil.c
+++ b/libavcodec/dsputil.c
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 
 #include "libavutil/attributes.h"
 #include "libavutil/imgutils.h"
-#include "libavutil/internal.h"
 #include "avcodec.h"
 #include "copy_block.h"
 #include "dct.h"
@@ -2417,30 +2416,8 @@ av_cold void ff_dsputil_static_init(void)
     }
 }
 
-int ff_check_alignment(void){
-    static int did_fail=0;
-    LOCAL_ALIGNED_16(int, aligned, [4]);
-
-    if((intptr_t)aligned & 15){
-        if(!did_fail){
-#if HAVE_MMX || HAVE_ALTIVEC
-            av_log(NULL, AV_LOG_ERROR,
-                "Compiler did not align stack variables. Libavcodec has been miscompiled\n"
-                "and may be very slow or crash. This is not a bug in libavcodec,\n"
-                "but in the compiler. You may try recompiling using gcc >= 4.2.\n"
-                "Do not report crashes to Libav developers.\n");
-#endif
-            did_fail=1;
-        }
-        return -1;
-    }
-    return 0;
-}
-
 av_cold void ff_dsputil_init(DSPContext* c, AVCodecContext *avctx)
 {
-    ff_check_alignment();
-
 #if CONFIG_ENCODERS
     if (avctx->bits_per_raw_sample == 10) {
         c->fdct    = ff_jpeg_fdct_islow_10;
diff --git a/libavcodec/dsputil.h b/libavcodec/dsputil.h
index b914fb1bdb..46aa8aa8d6 100644
--- a/libavcodec/dsputil.h
+++ b/libavcodec/dsputil.h
@@ -293,8 +293,6 @@ typedef struct DSPContext {
 void ff_dsputil_static_init(void);
 void ff_dsputil_init(DSPContext* p, AVCodecContext *avctx);
 
-int ff_check_alignment(void);
-
 void ff_set_cmp(DSPContext* c, me_cmp_func *cmp, int type);
 
 void ff_dsputil_init_arm(DSPContext* c, AVCodecContext *avctx);
diff --git a/libavcodec/mpegvideo_enc.c b/libavcodec/mpegvideo_enc.c
index 091bee39d7..9becaa5577 100644
--- a/libavcodec/mpegvideo_enc.c
+++ b/libavcodec/mpegvideo_enc.c
@@ -2357,8 +2357,6 @@ static int pre_estimate_motion_thread(AVCodecContext *c, void *arg){
 static int estimate_motion_thread(AVCodecContext *c, void *arg){
     MpegEncContext *s= *(void**)arg;
 
-    ff_check_alignment();
-
     s->me.dia_size= s->avctx->dia_size;
     s->first_slice_line=1;
     for(s->mb_y= s->start_mb_y; s->mb_y < s->end_mb_y; s->mb_y++) {
@@ -2385,8 +2383,6 @@ static int mb_var_thread(AVCodecContext *c, void *arg){
     MpegEncContext *s= *(void**)arg;
     int mb_x, mb_y;
 
-    ff_check_alignment();
-
     for(mb_y=s->start_mb_y; mb_y < s->end_mb_y; mb_y++) {
         for(mb_x=0; mb_x < s->mb_width; mb_x++) {
             int xx = mb_x * 16;
@@ -2477,8 +2473,6 @@ static int encode_thread(AVCodecContext *c, void *arg){
     uint8_t bit_buf_tex[2][MAX_MB_BYTES];
     PutBitContext pb[2], pb2[2], tex_pb[2];
 
-    ff_check_alignment();
-
     for(i=0; i<2; i++){
         init_put_bits(&pb    [i], bit_buf    [i], MAX_MB_BYTES);
         init_put_bits(&pb2   [i], bit_buf2   [i], MAX_MB_BYTES);