[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avutil/opt: Alpha workaround

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 12:38:05PM +0200, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2022-05-30 21:09:10)
> > alpha-linux-gnu-gcc-5 (Ubuntu 5.5.0-12ubuntu1) 5.5.0 20171010 with qemu-alpha version 2.11.1(Debian 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.39)
> > trigger a FPE on the DBL_MAX * 90000 operation
> > 
> > Iam not 100% sure why, but if i mess with mfp-trap-mode the compiler produces internal compiler errors
> > This issue seems not to affect the fate box with an older compiler
> > 
> > Ive also tried the gcc 6, gcc 7, gcc 8 packages with no luck
> 
> Do we event want to keep support for alpha? 

I have no opinion here


> Does it still have any
> real-world use? 

i do not know 


> It does not seem productive to spend development time on
> a dead platform.

Ive had the same thought and actually was a bit angry on myself after i spend
too long to get a gcc + qemu + gdb working together to debug this. Felt like
i could have done something more productive

I think a question is, is there someone who wants to maintain alpha support
because it seems it needs some support.
If someone does, its no work for me and i certainly dont mind if we keep alpha
on the list of supported architectures.
If not we can just apply this and pretend its still supported until it breaks
again. Though such support would not be with teh toolchain from the ubuntu
i used. The old fate box seems to work a lot better
Or we can just deprecate it and drop on a future bump
dont really have an opinion, but i dont plan to put any significant amount
of time in alpha support

thx

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