[FFmpeg-devel] Mach-O section alignment

[Baptiste Coudurier]

M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> David DeHaven wrote:
>> In libavcodec/x86/x86inc.asm:
>> ; Name of the .rodata section.
>> ; Kludge: Something on OS X fails to align .rodata even given an align
>> attribute,
>> ; so use a different read-only section.
>> %macro SECTION_RODATA 0
>>      %ifidn __OUTPUT_FORMAT__,macho64
>>          SECTION .text align=16
>>      %elifidn __OUTPUT_FORMAT__,macho
>>          SECTION .text align=16
>>          fakegot:
>>      %else
>>          SECTION .rodata align=16
>>      %endif
>> %endmacro
>>
>>
>> I sent a patch to both nasm and yasm that fixed section alignment.
>> They both have incorporated the fix and now work properly.
>> I'm not quite sure how to approach a fix for this since it's dependent
>> on non released versions of both.
>>
>> minimum yasm version that contains the fix is svn r2161, no public
>> release yet except in the SVN snapshots posted on the website:
>> $ yasm --version
>> yasm 0.7.99.HEAD
>> Compiled on Dec  7 2008.
>> Copyright (c) 2001-2008 Peter Johnson and other Yasm developers.
>> Run yasm --license for licensing overview and summary.
>>
>> Unfortunately we can't check SVN revision as it simply reports HEAD.
>>
>> Version 2.06rc2 of nasm posted on www.nasm.us contains the fix, which
>> is easy enough to check.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
> Leave the hack until the a version with the fix is released.
> 

I hope people don't think that about FFmpeg ;)

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