Re: usmemalign equivalent in performer??

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Don Hatch (hatch++at++hell.engr.sgi.com)
Thu, 21 Aug 1997 18:59:11 -0700

On Aug 21, 4:37pm, Markus Haas wrote:
> Subject: usmemalign equivalent in performer??
> Hello-
>
> I am working on an application that uses grio (guaranteed rate i/o) to load
> frames of real time video into a buffer for display. Grio requires direct i/o,
> which in turn requires a memaligned buffer. I would like to be able to split app
> off into its own process. This, of course, requires a shared memory arena.
>
> Does performer have a way to simulate usmemalign with a performer arena?
> (usmemalign + performer arena = crash)

The "us..." calls expect a different kind of arena.
Try using amemalign instead of usmemalign.

Don

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