[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] replace hardcoded offset of CABACContext.bytestream with "m" operand

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:01:20PM +0000, Mans Rullgard wrote:
>> ---
>>  libavcodec/cabac.h |   54 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
>>  1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> Have you checked that gcc doesnt pessimize the code? Iam certain this
> was written the way because it didnt work the other (cleaner) way around
>
> I also like to see START/STOP_TIMER benchmarks. In adition to some
> confirmation that gcc still uses the same register for (c) and
> (c->bytestream)

GCC 4.1.2 gives exactly the same code for the modified parts.  There
are, however minor differences in other parts of code.  In some
places, it has used r13 instead of r12, and instructions are reordered
in seemingly random ways in a few places.  Full diff of disassembled
output (h264.o) attached.  GCC is a mystery indeed.

> And some confirmation that it doesnt cause failures or miscompilations on
> gcc 2.95 and 3.* (3.3/3.4 being most relevant)
> old gcc is very sensitive to the number of operands

There's that of course...

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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