[FFmpeg-cvslog] configure: Drop check for availability of ten assembler operands.

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Wed Jun 29 07:47:48 CEST 2011


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 05:26:34AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> ffmpeg | branch: master | Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> | Wed Jun 22 23:30:15 2011 +0200| [d2ee495fb241fa4ef5b8b56161328c4379d1c79a] | committer: Diego Biurrun
> 
> configure: Drop check for availability of ten assembler operands.
> 
> This was done to support gcc 2.95, which is an old legacy compiler
> that fails to compile the current codebase anyway.

The only really known reason why it failed was some broken
constraints which I think are still broken in Libav.
Bugs in our own code are a really poor excuse to stop supporting
something! (Rather it is an argument to keep supporting it)


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