[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mipsen require compilation with -DPIC since gcc-4.3

[Måns Rullgård]

Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> writes:

> M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> writes:
>
>> Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> writes:
>>
>>> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>>> Those are clearly compiler/linker bugs.
>>>
>>> Discuss with the ABI authors...
>>
>> If it used to work, and now has stopped working, there has to be a bug
>> somewhere.  Since FFmpeg didn't change, the bug must be in gcc.
>
> No, it never worked.

Should I take this to mean that nobody used FFmpeg on MIPS before?

>>> If it does not impact performance (loadtime should be improved, runtime 
>>> could be impaired) I think won't be a problem applying it.
>>
>> There is no reason for MIPS to not support textrels in shared libs.
>
> As Thiemo points out, MIPS never supported non-PIC shared libraries.

Mentioning this in the original email would have spared us this
discussion.  Do you have a reference for that?

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M?ns Rullg?rd
mans at mansr.com