[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] remove gcc 3.3 workaround in swscale_template.c

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 07:12:44PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 06:53:36PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > There's an ugly preprocessor gcc 3.3 workaround in swscale_template.c:
> > 
> >   /* GCC 3.3 makes MPlayer crash on IA-32 machines when using "g" operand here,
> >      which is needed to support GCC 4.0. */
> >   #if ARCH_X86_64 && ((__GNUC__ > 3) || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4))
> >                   :: "m" (src1), "m" (dst), "g" (dstWidth), "m" (xInc_shr16), "m" (xInc_mask),
> >   #else
> >                   :: "m" (src1), "m" (dst), "m" (dstWidth), "m" (xInc_shr16), "m" (xInc_mask),
> >   #endif
> > 
> > At the very least it should be updated to use the AV_GCC_VERSION_AT_LEAST
> > macro from libavutil.  However, I would prefer to get rid of it
> > completely.  If I understand the comment correctly, deleting the whole
> > #else clause would be the way to achieve this.  Since I know little
> > enough assembler to have no real idea what "g" and "m" operands are all
> > about I'd like to hear an informed opinion.
> 
> Huh? No, the upper line should give faster code but causes crashes due
> to miscompilation with gcc 3.3
> The lower line does not compile with gcc 4.0 on x86_64 but produces correct code
> with 3.3.
> At least that's what the comment says.

OK, then I propose getting rid of the workaround completely.  I don't
think x86_64 users with gcc 3.3 exist, so it's not worth the ugliness on
our side.

Diego