[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fix compilation (?)

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 7:19 PM, M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 04:23:37PM -0500, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>>> Someone on mplayer-users reported a compile failure, which is rather
>>> odd since this function should be optimized out on 64-bit (as it is
>>> static and never used).
>>>
>>> But since it clearly wasn't, here's a patch to fix it.
>>
>> welcome to the world of gcc
>
> The standard does not require that the compiler remove unused
> functions.  That's just a nice feature of most implementations.

Oh, I know, the point is I was rather curious why in the world it
wasn't removed, as in my experience gcc does do that pretty
reliably...

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