[MPlayer-dev-eng] PIC compatibility in mplayer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:37:39AM +0900, Chris White wrote:
> All,
> 
>    MPlayer seems to have issues with some of the x86 asm code when it 
> is compiled for pic support.  PIC uses the ebx register, and that leaves 
> most x86 machines with little registers as it is, to die a painful death 
> and complain about a missing register.  I have attached the gcc specs 
> which hardened gcc uses for testing purposes.  Thank you ahead of time 
> for your response.  These specs are for gcc 3.4.

afaik it's known. pic is slow and mplayer is fast. don't expect
anything to be changed. if you really need pic, compile with asm
disabled.

rich