[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Force users to specify memalign_hack in configure

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:18:27PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Ramiro Polla <ramiro at lisha.ufsc.br> wrote:
> 
> > Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:14:43PM -0300, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> > >> Currently on MinGW users are required to explicitly add
> > >> --enable-memalign-hack to configure. Support for FreeDOS was recently
> > >> added, and memalign-hack is automatically enabled.
> > >>
> > >> I think we should force all users to request memalign-hack when needed.
> > >
> > > Fine with me.
> >
> > Applied.
> 
> I don't understand the logic here. So the default compilation of ffmpeg on
> *DOS (and such) should fail to run because you want people to manually
> enable this memalign hack? Why? Is there ever a case that ffmpeg runs fine
> on *DOS (and such) without enabling memalign_hack (and no, --disable-mmx is
> not a sufficient answer here).

IIUC this workaround may no longer be necessary some day.  In the
meantime it's better to be consistent.

Diego