[Ffmpeg-devel] [BUG] Compilation failure when using --disable-opts
Michael Niedermayer
michaelni
Thu Mar 15 00:41:53 CET 2007
Hi
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:16:59PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Panagiotis Issaris <takis at issaris.org> writes:
[...]
> >> And are you certain that this is correct for x86_64? Is the check
> >> even needed there, what with all the extra registers?
> > Actually, I do not really know... I figured that because x86_64 is
> > backwards compatible
>
> The instruction set is compatible, meaning that everything that works
> on 32-bit x86 still works on a 64-bit chip. Things that don't work on
> 32-bit chips might still be possible. 8 extra registers come to
> mind...
>
> > the registers are still there and the tests should still work. In the
> > worst case the tests would be unnecessary ofcourse... Prefer to remove
> > it and only add it when someone figures out how this works on x86_64?
>
> I don't think this is very urgent, so I'd rather wait a day for
> someone with the knowledge to shed some light.
the tests should be run on x86_64 too
[...]
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