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Re: 4 hashes parallel on SSE2 CPUs for 0.3.6

sgtstein
On both MinGW GCC 4.4.1 and 4.5.0 I have it working with test.cpp but SIGSEGV when called by BitcoinMiner.  So now it doesn't look like it's the version of GCC, it's something else, maybe just the luck of how the stack is aligned.

I have it working fine on GCC 4.3.3 on Ubuntu 32-bit.

I found the problem with Crypto++ on MinGW 4.5.0.  Here's the patch for that:

Code:

--- \old\sha.cpp Mon Jul 26 13:31:11 2010
+++
ew\sha.cpp Sat Aug 14 20:21:08 2010
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@
  ROUND(14, 0, eax, ecx, edi, edx)
  ROUND(15, 0, ecx, eax, edx, edi)

- ASL(1)
+    ASL(label1)   // Bitcoin: fix for MinGW GCC 4.5
  AS2(add WORD_REG(si), 4*16)
  ROUND(0, 1, eax, ecx, edi, edx)
  ROUND(1, 1, ecx, eax, edx, edi)
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@
  ROUND(14, 1, eax, ecx, edi, edx)
  ROUND(15, 1, ecx, eax, edx, edi)
  AS2( cmp  WORD_REG(si), K_END)
- ASJ( jne, 1, b)
+    ASJ(    jne,    label1,  )   // Bitcoin: fix for MinGW GCC 4.5

  AS2( mov  WORD_REG(dx), DATA_SAVE)
  AS2( add  WORD_REG(dx), 64)

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