[Ffmpeg-devel] Compiler error in latest CVS

[matthieu castet]

Hi,

Robert Edele wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 13:27 -0500, Rich Felker wrote:

> 
> 
> That looks like my code. If PIC support is very important to anyone
> (whatever that is), they're free to write a patch that avoids the use of
> ebx. Avoiding it is easy in vertical_compose, but it will likely be very
> hard to avoid using in inner_add_yblock because every register gets
> used, and I already had to make sacrifices to squeeze it in the existing
> registers. A loss of speed in add_yblock is also inevitable if ebx is
> not used (perhaps as little as a push and pop of ebx if you can use that
> with GCC inline assmebly).
> 
May be code using ebx in inline asm should be disabled if the user wants 
to use PIC. This will allow people to compile with PIC and use slow C 
version and working PIC_COMPLIANT asm version.

Matthieu