[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Defining ARCH_* through compiler's macros

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:35:44PM +0200, Ismail D?nmez wrote:
> Tuesday 11 December 2007 19:32:51 tarihinde M?ns Rullg?rd ?unlar? yazm??t?:
> > Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote:
> > > It's not complete yet but I'd rather ask now and get it shot down rather
> > > than completing it and having to scratch it after spending too much time
> > > on it.
> > >
> > > The attached file is just a proposal, not complete nor probably accurate
> > > at the moment, to set the ARCH_* variables through the use of compiler's
> > > macros (at least gcc, icc and if I recall correctly sun's cc provide
> > > enough of them).
> >
> > The ARCH_* variables are needed by the makefiles as well, so we still
> > need to set them in configure, and there's no point doing it differently
> > for the compiler.
> 
> I think the reason for this is to make more ffmpeg headers installable.

if ARCH_* is needed by an installed header than the file in which ARCH_*
is defined must be installed a well

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