<div dir="ltr"><div class="im">>> If I compile with -mfpu=neon then FFmpeg blows up<br>>> with SIGILL (ILLOPTPC) when run on a non-Neon CPU. <br>>> If I compile with -mfpu=vfvp3 then FFmpeg runs fine,<br>
>> but presumably without the optimized code<br><br></div>> Did you test this? (with a debugger)<br>> I don't know but it seems very unlikely to me that a<br>> compiler option ("-mfpu=vfvp3") affects FFmpeg asm<br>
> optimizations.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Not with a debugger - I'm not too handy with gdb - just by turning compiler options on and off in the hope of squeezing better performance from slower devices. I could be wrong but since -mfpu=neon always results in ILLOPTPC and other -mfpu options don't, it seemed logical to connect the two.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Here's my configuration and build output for Android's armeabi-v7a ABI ... perhaps I'm using a wrong combination of options?</div>







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</div><div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style><div class="gmail_extra">C compiler                /Users/reuben/android/ndk/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.7/prebuilt/darwin-x86_64/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-gcc</div>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cehoyos@ag.or.at" target="_blank">cehoyos@ag.or.at</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Reuben Scratton <reuben.scratton@...> writes:<br>

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> If I compile with -mfpu=neon then FFmpeg blows up<br>
> with SIGILL (ILLOPTPC) when run on a non-Neon CPU. <br>
<br>
> If I compile with -mfpu=vfvp3 then FFmpeg runs fine,<br>
> but presumably without the optimized code<br>
<br>
</div>Did you test this? (with a debugger)<br>
I don't know but it seems very unlikely to me that a<br>
compiler option ("-mfpu=vfvp3") affects FFmpeg asm<br>
optimizations.<br>
<br>
[...]<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Would it be possible for FFmpeg to detect Neon at runtime?<br>
<br>
</div>Looking at ff_dsputil_init_arm() in<br>
libavcodec/arm/dsputil_init_arm.c, that is exactly what it<br>
currently does.<br>
<br>
Carl Eugen<br>
<br>
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