[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: Compilation poblem and fix on 2007-03-06 trunk =?windows-1252?q?(?=Tatu Kilappa)

[François Revol]

> "larry.sdk" <larry.sdk at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > As the MS VC do not support declaration array with varible size, 
> > all
> > of the source code must be modified with _alloc(). And below is and
> > example in the dsputils.c:
> >
> > DECLARE_ALIGNED_8 (uint64_t, aligned_bak[stride]);
> >
> > replaced it by:
> >
> >  uint64_t *aligned_bak = (uint64_t *)_alloca(sizeof(uint64_t)*
> > stride);
> 
> MSVC lacks support for quite a few other C features used by FFmpeg.
> The code must be compiled with a (mostly) C99 compliant compiler, 
> such
> as gcc.  Most of the assembler optimizations are also available only
> when gcc is used.

However, defining an DECLARE_ALIGN_8_ARRAY(type,name,sz) macro could 
provide a one-line workaround for that incomplete compiler...

> 
> The compiled libraries can be used with any compiler.  The public
> header files do not use any special language constructs.  All that is
> required is a sane stdint.h header file.

I have the feeling this skud has been launched towards me... but maybe 
I'm just getting paranoid.

Fran?ois.