[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Unconditionally run emms on calls to emms_c() if HAVE_MMX is defined

Eli Friedman eli.friedman
Sun Jul 4 16:57:25 CEST 2010


2010/7/4 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>:
> Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Patch attached. ?We already assume HAVE_MMX implies MMX is available
>>> at runtime, so this seems like it should be OK.
>>
>> Actually, that's wrong... I think this breaks distros that want to
>> support Pentium Pro and earlier in the same binary for modern
>> computers.
>
> A binary built for i586 or earlier will be quite crippled even in
> plain C code. ?The only sane thing to do as a distro to provide two
> packages (or more).

So you think this patch is okay?

-Eli



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