[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] remove MSVC cruft

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger
Wed Feb 13 09:56:46 CET 2008


Hello,
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:50:01PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:15:22PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > It's two seconds for anyone to fix who knows what they are doing.
> > 
> > Why should a user of a plain ISO C (no asm) compiler have to fix anything
> > when compiling a program which is supposedly ISO C compared to GNU C?
> 
> Indeed, this sort of attitude makes me so mad. I spent many hours on
> such "two second fixes" for countless programs when building them on
> my system, all due to idiotic GNU assumptions.

I do not see how assuming that GNU is the only compiler implementing
asm() is much better, even TurboPascal had an asm thing.
And for those people it will be more like a two-hour fix to even find
out what is going wrong...
In addition there seem to be some asms that are not conditional at all.
The suggestions here IMO have _not at all_ been about fixing compilation
with a plain C compiler, but instead about hacking around and pretending
to do this without considerations to the problems it might cause.




More information about the ffmpeg-devel mailing list