[MPlayer-users] Compile error (can't find register in class)

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 15 June 2006 at 02:18, Jon Drukman wrote:
> i tried building mplayer on a 32 bit pentium 4 system and a 64 bit 
> opteron system, both with red hat enterprise linux 4, and in both cases 
> i get the following error:
> 
> i386/dsputil_mmx.c: In function `transpose4x4':
> i386/dsputil_mmx.c:621: error: can't find a register in class 
> `GENERAL_REGS' while reloading `asm'
> In file included from i386/dsputil_mmx.c:2622:
> i386/h264dsp_mmx.c:49:1: warning: "SBUTTERFLY" redefined
> i386/dsputil_mmx.c:1525:1: warning: this is the location of the previous 
> definition
> i386/h264dsp_mmx.c:1262:1: warning: "PUT_OP" redefined
> i386/dsputil_mmx.c:2377:1: warning: this is the location of the previous 
> definition
> make[1]: *** [i386/dsputil_mmx.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/build/mplayer/libavcodec'
> 
> if i disable MMX it will compile, but it runs dog slow.  any idea how to 
> overcome this problem?

If you're not using 1.0pre8, upgrade. If it still happens, it's probably
your compiler's fault.

http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html#id2543390

Regards,
R.

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