[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Configure fails on Intel OS X

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:12:46AM +1000, Nigel Pearson wrote:
> 
> Purpose: Fix incorrect configure script exit on Intel OS X
> Applies: SVN r5816
> Testing: Patch has been in place in MythTV for 4 months
>          http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/9452
> Authors: Mino Taoyama, Nigel Pearson
> 
> 
> Discussion: OS X has no memalign(). The malloc() man page says:
> DESCRIPTION
>      The malloc(), calloc(), valloc(), and realloc() functions allocate mem-
>      ory.  The allocated memory is aligned such that it can be used for any
>      data type, including AltiVec-related types.
> 
> The patch simply skips the MMX/SSE and memalign() check
> when running on OS X/Darwin. An alternative would be to
> set memalignhack on this OS, but I think that generates
> some extra, un-needed, code.

Thanks, applied.

Diego