This is now very harmless to do as the big change (EIGEN_ALIGN preprocessor stuff and the body of ei_aligned_malloc) was already introduced in 2.0.6.
Should address Björn's issue, and also improve FreeBSD platform detection.
* EIGEN_ALIGN and EIGEN_DONT_ALIGN and the corresponding logic in Macros.h
(instead of using EIGEN_ARCH_WANTS_ALIGNMENT)
* The body of ei_aligned_malloc and ei_aligned_free
The reason for this backporting is that a user complained that with eigen 2.0 he got a warning at Memory.h:81 that the return value of posix_memalign was not used, and that function was declared with an attribute warn_unused_result.
Looking at this, it seemed that the body of this function was already overly complicated, and fixing this warning made it even worse, while the devel branch had a much simpler body and didn't suffer from that problem.
Then it was necessary to update ei_aligned_free too, and to backport EIGEN_ALIGN.
Inch' Allah....
EIGEN_WORK_AROUND_QT_BUG_CALLING_WRONG_OPERATOR_NEW_FIXED_IN_QT_4_5
is the right way to go for allowing placement new on a class having
overloaded operator new. Qt 4.5 won't add the :: prefix. (I still do not
understand how you can distinghish a placement new from an overloaded
operator new taking an allocator as argument...)
* try to be clever in matrix ctors and operator=: be lazy when we can, always allow
to copy rowvector into columnvector, check the template parameters,
try to factor the code better
* add missing copy ctor in UnalignedType
* fix bug in the traits of DiagonalProduct
* renaming: EIGEN_TUNE_FOR_CPU_CACHE_SIZE
* update the dox a little
only used as fallback for now, needs benchmarking.
also notice that some malloc() impls do waste memory to keep track of alignment
and other stuff (check msdn's page on malloc).
* expand test_dynalloc to cover low level aligned alloc funcs. Remove the old
#ifdef EIGEN_VECTORIZE...
* rewrite the logic choosing an aligned alloc, some new stuff:
* malloc() already aligned on freebsd and windows x64 (plus apple already)
* _mm_malloc() used only if EIGEN_VECTORIZE
* posix_memalign: correct detection according to man page (not necessarily
linux specific), don't attempt to declare it if the platform didn't declare it
(there had to be a reason why it didn't declare it, right?)
ei_aligned_malloc now really behaves like a malloc
(untyped, doesn't call ctor)
ei_aligned_new is the typed variant calling ctor
EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW now takes the class name as parameter
(former solution still available and tested)
This plays much better with classes that already have base classes --
don't force the user to mess with multiple inheritance, which gave
much trouble with MSVC.
* Expand the unaligned assert dox page
* Minor fixes in the lazy evaluation dox page
order, one bit for enabling/disabling auto-alignment. If you want to
disable, do:
Matrix<float,4,1,Matrix_DontAlign>
The Matrix_ prefix is the only way I can see to avoid
ambiguity/pollution. The old RowMajor, ColMajor constants are
deprecated, remain for now.
* this prompted several improvements in matrix_storage. ei_aligned_array
renamed to ei_matrix_array and moved there. The %16==0 tests are now
much more centralized in 1 place there.
* unalignedassert test: updated
* update FindEigen2.cmake from KDElibs
* determinant test: use VERIFY_IS_APPROX to fix false positives; add
testing of 1 big matrix
* Matrix: always inherit WithAlignedOperatorNew, regardless of
vectorization or not
* rename ei_alloc_stack to ei_aligned_stack_alloc
* mixingtypes test: disable vectorization as SSE intrinsics don't allow
mixing types and we just get compile errors there.
* use _mm_malloc/_mm_free on other platforms than linux of MSVC (eg., cygwin, OSX)
* replace a lot of inline keywords by EIGEN_STRONG_INLINE to compensate for
poor MSVC inlining
