[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Enable SSE detection under MinGW

Sascha Sommer saschasommer at freenet.de
Mon Jun 27 13:48:02 CEST 2005


On Sunday 26 June 2005 22:57, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 04:39:16PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:45:15PM +0300, Burman Yan wrote:
> > > The MinGW build doesn't enable SSE for some reason. This patch fixes
> > > it. I don't see a reason why SSE shouldn't be enabled on MinGW. It
> > > works for me (at least on Windows XP).
> >
> > It's unreliable because windows does not have a working memalign, i.e.
> > it may randomly crash if allocated memory happens not to be aligned.
>
> But I think it is enabled for libavcodec, right (since that's what the
> memalign hack is there for)??
>

I disabled it again because it has been the source of various other crashes 
related with mencoder. Anyone enabling it again should make absolutely sure
that these get fixed, too.

Sascha




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