[Ffmpeg-devel] Compilation issues on Solaris 10 AMD64 using SUN linker/cc

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sunday 24 July 2005 16:53, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    While compiling FFMpeg using SUN Studio 10 on
> Solaris 10 running on an AMD64 box, I faced a linker
> issue. The SUN linker cribbed while linking the file
> libavcodec/liba52/resample_mmx.c.
>
> The error message was something like: relocations
> remain against relocatable non-writable text secions.
> This happened even though the PIC flag was set and the
>
> problem exists in the CVS version as well.
>
> Finally I had to change the assembly code in
> resample_mmx.c to use %ebp relative addressing to
> access the vaiables magicF2W and wm* .  I moved the
> variable declarations onto the function stacks.
>
> Context diffs are attached in this email.

rejected
large speed loss, no exact error messages, no unified diff, very very very 
dirty way to access these variables (its almost guranteed to fail if a 
differnt compiler or different compiler options are used)

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-- 
Michael