[MPlayer-dev-eng] icc benchmark

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Hi!

Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala <at> pp1.inet.fi> writes:

> > I'd be more than happy to hear of a simpler alternative.
> 
> I think the only non-hacky/ugly way that would also be "guaranteed" to
> work (as long as the compilers actually work...) would be to use asm
> constraints. I don't know if there's still compiler brokenness which
> would prevent this from working with icc 10.0; at least some tests I
> made seemed to indicate it working correctly.
> 
> Attached is an example change for liba52/imdct.c (chosen just because it
> was the last file among initial icc error messages). The READ_ARRAY
> macro would obviously be defined in a header instead of per file. This
> version seems to work right with both gcc and icc.

I could have bet on it: It doesn't work with gcc-2.95.3

Except for namespace polution: Is there another disadvantage with global
variables?

Carl Eugen