Removing flag for alignment -- fixed at 1024 now

meson_options.txt

@@ -26,11 +26,3 @@ option('onlyOpenSource',
   yield: true
 )
 
-option('CPUFunctionAlignment',
-  type : 'integer',
-  min : 1,
-  value : 1024,
-  description : '''Indicates the alignment for the main emulator CPU function.
-                 This is a large function that may cross page boundaries, which impacts performance. 
-                 This requires the GNU compiler to work.'''
-)

source/quickerNES/core/cpu.cpp

@@ -222,8 +222,10 @@ uint8_t clock_table [256] = {
     3,5,2,8,4,4,6,6,2,4,2,7,4,4,7,7 // F
 };
 
-
-__attribute__((optimize("align-functions=" _QUICKERNES_CPU_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT)))
+// This optimization is only possible on linux systems -- MSVC does not allow function alignment
+#ifdef __linux__
+__attribute__((optimize("align-functions=1024")))
+#endif
  Cpu::result_t Cpu::run ( nes_time_t end ) 
 {
  set_end_time_( end );

source/quickerNES/meson.build

@@ -28,13 +28,10 @@ quickerNESSrc = quickerNESAPUSrc + quickerNESPPUSrc + [
  'core/cpu.cpp'
 ]
 
-# Getting page alignment option
-CPUFunctionAlignment = get_option('CPUFunctionAlignment')
-
 # quickerNES Core Configuration
 
  quickerNESDependency = declare_dependency(
-  compile_args        : [ '-D_QUICKERNES_CPU_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT="' + CPUFunctionAlignment.to_string() + '"'],
+  compile_args        : [ ],
   include_directories : include_directories(['.']),
   sources             : [ quickerNESSrc ]
  )