[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] RoQ video encoder, take 2

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 5/28/07, Reimar Doeffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 04:25:14PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 04:24:45PM +0200, Reimar Doeffinger wrote:
> > > If anything the bug is in the C spec for giving it a name that promises
> > > something that can't be done. Something like uint_native8_t would be
> >
> > hmm, hmm
> > it could be done
> >
> > for example int_fast*_t could be defined as a type which is at least 8bit
> > and which should be fast for the opertaions it is used in
> > and that 2 int_fastX_t variables can differ in their type, which also
> > would cause sizeof(int_fast*_t) to be invalid C
>
> Then it wouldn't be any C types anymore, but more something like
> -ffast-math...
> I agree that sometimes it would be nice if you could tell the compiler
> even for integer operations "I do not care about overflow cases", then
> it would automatically use 32 or 64 bits for loop variables on AMD64
> depending on whether it can use the variable directly for addressing or
> not (which might even depend oncompiler options).

Maybe place a bounty to have GCC implement -fread-my-mind :o)


Guillaume
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