[FFmpeg-devel] PIC and YASM

[Loren Merritt]

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:

> I have been trying to figure out some compilation issues with hardened
> gentoo on AMD64 and they all come down to YASM.

I would object to this in x264, since PIC is slower than non-PIC at 
indexing static arrays. None of the yasm code in ffmpeg does that, so 
no problem for now. But I may revert this if I ever do write/import such 
code.

--Loren Merritt