[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] '/nop' illegal for old versions of GAS

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:45:29AM +1000, John Dalgliesh wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >
> >Hi
> >
> >On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 04:12:16AM +1000, John Dalgliesh wrote:
> >>
> >>On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Hi
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:33:31AM +1000, Nigel Pearson wrote:
> >>>>	I assumed you wanted to keep the ability
> >>>>to pass in an opcode to do rounding?
> >>>
> >>>yes, of course, the code must still work ...
> >>
> >>OK I think that there is a misunderstanding here. The only value ever
> >>passed into those IDCT macros is '/nop'. That is, the rounder argument is
> >>never used for anything except generating an assembler comment.
> >
> >look again
> >
> >
> >[blah blah]
> >
> >>Tested on linux x86 and compiles fine, does not cause any regressions to
> >>fail. (Two regressions fail for esoteric formats with svn head for me; the
> >>patch does not change this.)
> >
> >of course it works on linux ...
> 
> I thought that was the platform you were suggesting it wouldn't work on if 
> the rounding ability were removed?
> 
> Of course it fixes the problem on Mac OS X under x86 too. I didn't check 

well, if thats the case then ive no objections to the patch

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