[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2] configure: Work around a start-up crash when building with clang.

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 5:00 PM Timo Rothenpieler <timo at rothenpieler.org> wrote:
>
> On 20.11.2019 13:51, Rick Kern wrote:
> > The current version of clang enables stack checking by default, causing
> > a crash when binaries are run.
>
> Why does it trigger a crash? Doesn't it indicate something is wrong that
> should be fixed instead?

Its a bug in the Apple compiler (not in Clang in general afaik) that
causes stack alignment to be thrown off.

The commit should probably indicate that this is a Apple compiler bug.

-  Hendrik