The IJG convention is to format copyright notices as:
Copyright (C) YYYY, Owner.
We try to maintain this convention for any code that is part of the
libjpeg API library (with the exception of preserving the copyright
notices from Cendio's code verbatim, since those predate
libjpeg-turbo.)
Note that the phrase "All Rights Reserved" is no longer necessary, since
all Buenos Aires Convention signatories signed onto the Berne Convention
in 2000. However, our convention is to retain this phrase for any files
that have a self-contained copyright header but to leave it off of any
files that refer to another file for conditions of distribution and use.
For instance, all of the non-SIMD files in the libjpeg API library refer
to README.ijg, and the copyright message in that file contains "All
Rights Reserved", so it is unnecessary to add it to the individual
files.
The TurboJPEG code retains my preferred formatting convention for
copyright notices, which is based on that of VirtualGL (where the
TurboJPEG API originated.)
The convention used by libjpeg:
type * variable;
is not very common anymore, because it looks too much like
multiplication. Some (particularly C++ programmers) prefer to tuck the
pointer symbol against the type:
type* variable;
to emphasize that a pointer to a type is effectively a new type.
However, this can also be confusing, since defining multiple variables
on the same line would not work properly:
type* variable1, variable2; /* Only variable1 is actually a
pointer. */
This commit reformats the entirety of the libjpeg-turbo code base so
that it uses the same code formatting convention for pointers that the
TurboJPEG API code uses:
type *variable1, *variable2;
This seems to be the most common convention among C programmers, and
it is the convention used by other codec libraries, such as libpng and
libtiff.
(descriptions cribbed by DRC from discussion in #20)
In the x86-64 ABI, the high (unused) DWORD of a 32-bit argument's
register is undefined, so it was incorrect to use a 64-bit mov
instruction to transfer a JDIMENSION argument in the 64-bit SSE2 SIMD
functions. The code worked thus far only because the existing compiler
optimizers weren't smart enough to do anything else with the register in
question, so the upper 32 bits happened to be all zeroes-- for the past
6 years, on every x86-64 compiler previously known to mankind.
The bleeding-edge Clang/LLVM compiler has a smarter optimizer, and
under certain circumstances, it will attempt to load-combine adjacent
32-bit integers from one of the libjpeg structures into a single 64-bit
integer and pass that 64-bit integer as a 32-bit argument to one of the
SIMD functions (which is allowed by the ABI, since the upper 32 bits of
the 32-bit argument's register are undefined.) This caused the
libjpeg-turbo regression tests to crash.
Also enhance the documentation of JDIMENSION to explain that its size
is significant to the implementation of the SIMD code.
Closes#20. Refer also to http://crbug.com/532214.
