[FFmpeg-devel] FATE & Regressions (and PPC is broken)

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:14:08PM +0200, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On 16 March 2008, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > It still would be nice to keep C code as a reference implementation, so
> > > that it could be always possible to check if an assembly optimized mdct
> > > produces bitexact results.
> >
> > Floating-point isn't bit-exact, as has just been demonstrated.
> 
> Yes, it also demonstrates that md5 check in this particular regression test
> does not make much sense :) It can break any time on any platform after, for
> example, compiler upgrade which could result in changes in codegenerator.
> 
> Is it even worth fixing with your patch (also introducing performance
> regression on some platforms)? Maybe a more intelligent regression test which
> just verifies PSNR (taking some possible varuiation in last digits into
> account) would be more suitable in this case?

Maybe compile float codecs with -O0 -ffloat-store for regression testing.

This might reduce the differences between architectures.

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