[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer on intel macs

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 07:31:55PM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2006/6/24, Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com>:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I just had a look at the patch: there's absolutely no way such a patch
> >can make it to our sourcetree. As you said, it's a hack....
> >
> >I'm sure you understand that all code that makes it to our sourcetree
> >has to be maintained once it's merged, therefore the only way to go is
> >to have a clean patch...
> >
> 
> Except for some compatibility issue of the assembler, it seems that
> mp3lib is the biggest problem. Your work to import it to AMD64 might
> also work for Intel Mac.
> 
> Many old inline asm in mplayer use hardcoded 32-bit general registers,
> which is bad when those registers have grown to 64-bit.

That's one view. The other possible view is that x86_64 is not the
same arch as i386 and that the asm for one has nothing to do with the
asm for the other.. :)

Rich