[MPlayer-dev-eng] [REPOST] [PATCH] Mac OS X fixes + Darwin AltiVec detection

[Dan Christiansen]

This seems to have slipped through. I believe it fixes the issues Alex 
Beregszaszi mentioned. I wouldn't recommend applying the cpu detection 
patch until someone verified whether it's any good or not.

- Dan

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> From: Dan Christiansen <danchr at daimi.au.dk>
> Date: Fri Mar 28, 2003  5:14:30 PM Europe/Copenhagen
> To: mplayer-dev-eng at mplayerhq.hu
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Mac OS X fixes
> Reply-To: mplayer-dev-eng at mplayerhq.hu
>
> On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 07:43 PM, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I go further, i don't even see the sense of this.
>> The -framework stuff isn't specific to objective-c? If yes, it doesn't
>> make sense to put it into mplayer, becouse there aren't any .m files.
>>
>> (Anyway, if I'm false, the -x objective-c doesn't seem make sense
>> either)
>
> The idea behind the change from -ObjC to -x objective-c was that -ObjC 
> is specific to Apple GCC and would thus cause the test to fail 
> needlessly on a system where someone had compiled there own version of 
> GCC.
>
> The original idea was to have as much as possible in the test so that 
> it would fail on any other system than Mac OS X, but coming to think 
> of it, it seems better to simply test for what is used. The new patch 
> reflects this.
>
> I noticed that configure didn't seem to detect the presence of an 
> AltiVec unit on Darwin. I don't have a G4 myself, so I can't test 
> this, but attached below is a small patch to check for it using 
> sysctl. Does MPlayer support runtime CPU detection on the PPC as well?
>
> - Dan
>
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