[FFmpeg-devel] gcc 2.95.3 support plan

Diego Biurrun diego
Wed Feb 11 11:06:29 CET 2009


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:56:00AM +0100, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> Mike Melanson wrote:
> >
> > r17059 (ASM optimizations by Loren) broke compilation on x86_32/gcc 2.95.3:
> >
> > /home/fate/fate32/source/libavcodec/x86/dsputil_mmx.c: In function
> > `add_hfyu_median_prediction_cmov':
> > /home/fate/fate32/source/libavcodec/x86/dsputil_mmx.c:580: more than 10
> > operands in `asm'
> >
> > I propose several options:
> >
> > 1. declare the configuration unsupported as of now and I remove the 
> > configuration from FATE
> >
> > 2. declare the configuration supported, but without optimizations, and 
> > I'll adjust FATE to build it with '--disable-mmx' (I just checked and 
> > this builds and passes regressions)
> >
> > 3. revert 17059 for now, declare that the upcoming release is the last 
> > one that will support the full configuration, and then re-apply Loren's 
> > optimizations; then declare either 1 or 2
> >
> > Which shall it be?
> 
> 4. Add some ifdefs to disable the code on 2.95.3.

You seem to have missed the configure check that I and Loren have written
for exactly this problem.  Just wait until it is in place.

Diego




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