[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: FFMPEG on Windows

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:45:26AM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 8/31/05, Marcus Engene <ffmpeg at engene.se> wrote:
> > Martin Boehme wrote:
> > 
> > >> MinGW32?
> > >
> > > If it is the former are you experiencing a performance increase over
> > >
> > > Compiling FFmpeg itself under MSVC would be a huge porting fest, and
> > > unless you wanted to take a big performance _hit_, you'd have to
> > > convert large chunks of inline assembler from AT&T syntax to Intel
> > > syntax...
> > >
> > > Martin
> > >
> > Couldn't the asm things be wrapped in macros? How do other multi
> > platform projects deal with this?
> 
> Lots of them use nasm, gasm or yasm.

which doesnt help, you still need to compile/assemble parts with something
else then MSs compiler, so how is that better then gcc?

btw, AFAIK the reason why *ASM is used in some projects instead of gccs 
inline asm is that the developers hate the AT&T style asm and prefer intel 
style, not that i disagree on the ugliness of AT&T style asm ...

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Michael