[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 0.6 status update

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:24:28PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 15:09:12 (CET), Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 
> > Currently, we plan to try Mar 13 as date X, but depending on the
> > resulting discussion about this announcement, we can also delay it a few
> > days/weeks. Depending on the condition of the 0.6 branch on day X + 7
> > (this might be Mar 20), we can ideally release in the week between 22-27
> > of Mar.
> 
> Okay, that would be then today. looking at FATE [1], things seems to be
> mostly fine, with some known test failures. The single known build
> failure is on ia64 and caused by a gcc bug (according to mans, our .bss
> segment is about 5MB, but gcc fails to handle that, so *shrug*).

The question is: how did it get so huge again despite hardcoded tables
being enabled?
Also there is a patch for that issue, at least Gentoo integrated it,
so I expect it isn't that much of an issue but I don't like to have such
huge non-optional runtime-generated tables.