[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure, avutil/libm: add fmax, fmaxf, fmin, fminf support

[Clément Bœsch]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Ganesh Ajjanagadde wrote:
> It has been demonstrated that using libc provided floating point
> functions is beneficial, in the context of fabs() vs FFABS.
> 
> Unfortunately, MSVC 2012 (and earlier) lack the ISO C99 fmax, fmaxf,
> fmin, fminf functions. This patch adds them, thus making their usage in
> FFmpeg safe.
> 

Do we have any use of fmax/fmin? The functions don't exist to make
FFMAX-like faster, it actually is more complex:

       These functions return the maximum of x and y.

       If one argument is a NaN, the other argument is returned.

       If both arguments are NaN, a NaN is returned.

Which means it's likely slower but will do more. Not that I mind, but in this
case, if we happen to use them, you will want to fix your local implementation
to match this behaviour.

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Clément B.
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