[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] configure on amd64

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 20 September 2004 at 00:56, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> Glad that you don't recommend to apply this !
> This patch force gcc to use -m32 on x86_64 arch

Indeed.

> and this is a very
> bad idea ! It simply don't work at all on a pure 64 bits system,
> without any 32 bits lib installed (which is the case of my system).

Yes, it's true. The point was to get MPlayer working _with_ ASM
optimizations enabled.

> Current MPlayer compile and works well on x86_64 in 64 bits mode.
> It lacks all the mmx/sse/... extensions

True, and it's very slow then.

> but compling it as a 32 bits binary is not the right solution IMHO.

I know.

> Maybe you could add a configure option to be able to select 32 bits
> mode on x86_64 ?

That's a better idea. Something along the lines of --use-abi=32?

R.

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