[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] split-radix FFT

[Uoti Urpala]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:18 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:36:06AM -0600, Loren Merritt wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >
> > > Also if i use MANGLE to access the 2 root2 globals things clear up a bit in
> > > the code generated, so i would suggest that to be done at least, even if
> > > the asm stays split up.
> > 
> > If we don't actually require the output to be position independent, isn't 
> > the simpler solution to not compile with -fPIC? Or are we doing some sort 
> > of informed trade-off where only the most cpu-intensive functions get 
> > textrels?
> 
> Thats a good argument as well.

Funny how you didn't find the argument good at all when I mentioned it
while talking about MANGLE earlier... :)

>  Though i was more thinking of distributions
> that have a policy that says -fPIC must be added to the flags.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html:
> 10.2 Libraries

Currently FFmpeg in Debian is built without -fPIC on x86.