[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: [rfc] cleaning up dsputil*

[Luca Abeni]

Hi Ronald,

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 18:42 +0200, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > I'd like to make the dir a bit more clean:
> [..]
> 
> Could the altivec init be made in such a way that binaries compiled on a
> G4 work on a G3? I think I've reported this in the past, but just to
> repeat myself: I've found that binaries of lavf/lavc compiled on a G4 do
> not work on a G3; they appear to be using altivec code. I haven't found
> any compiler flag that will do runtime detection of CPU. I do not have
> this problem on x86.
I experienced this problem some time ago, and I was investigating it...
But then my ibook broke :(
I should still have some notes about my findings somewhere; I'll search
for them and post then later

				Luca