[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] configure: Enable GCC vectorization on ≥4.9

[James Almer]

On 5/6/2016 7:08 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 1:28 AM, Timothy Gu <timothygu99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 3:38 PM Timothy Gu <timothygu99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 07:27:22PM +0000, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
>>>> On 1/30/2016 7:15 PM, Timothy Gu wrote:
>>>>> FATE passes here on a x86-64 machine with both GCC 4.9.2 and 5.3.1.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps this should be restricted to x86?
>>>
>>> Fair enough.
>>
>>
>> Pushed.
>>
> 
> Just to document it, this has caused build breakage in various
> scenarios, even in GCC 5.3 (6.1 not tested).
> 
> The latest reported on IRC just today here:
> libavcodec/sbrdsp.c: In function 'sbr_neg_odd_64_c':
> libavcodec/sbrdsp.c:47:13: internal compiler error: in
> vect_analyze_data_ref_accesses, at tree-vect-data-refs.c:2596
>  static void sbr_neg_odd_64_c(float *x)

What compile flags? How was ffmpeg configured?
I can try to reproduce it and report the bug to gcc.

> 
> There are various other cases which usually involve inline asm when
> building with SIMD (ie. --cpu=host) and the optimizer running out of
> registers, for example:
> libavcodec/x86/cabac.h:192:5: error: 'asm' operand has impossible constraints
> 
> IMHO this feature is not quite ready to be enabled unconditionally in
> our code base, and we should re-evaluate this change.
> 
> - Hendrik
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