"Ronald S. Bultje" <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:29:08AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 11:42:45AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>> > "Ronald S. Bultje" <[email protected]> writes:
>>> > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > >> ff_get_cpu_flags_x86() requires cpuid(), which is conditionally defined
>>> > >> elsewhere in the file.  Surrounding the function body with ifdefs 
>>> > >> allows
>>> > >> building even when cpuid is not defined.  An empty cpuflags mask is
>>> > >> returned in this case.
>>> > >> ---
>>> > >>  libavutil/x86/cpu.c |    4 ++++
>>> > >>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>> >
>>> > What configuration does this affect?
>>>
>>> --disable-inline-asm, see my FATE instance with that flag.
>>>
>>> > > I don't like this. I remember someone not testing his cpumask patch a
>>> > > while ago, causing all of fate to run (silently, and undetected for a
>>> > > good hour) in pure C on all x86 machines.
>>> >
>>> > That mistake had nothing to do with this patch.
>>> >
>>> > > Running in pure C should not go undetected and especially not silent.
>>> > > I prefer if this fails to compile, so we can _fix_ it instead of
>>> > > pretending to support a machine that we don't. For such machines,
>>> > > --disable-mmx or similar is good enough as a hack, right? I'm fine
>>> > > with some kind of a very loud warning also.
>>> >
>>> > There is currently only a problem if building with a compiler that
>>> > supports neither inline asm nor cpuid intrinsics.  I don't know of such
>>> > a compiler.
>>>
>>> Ronald, do you still object to this patch?  I believe Mans summed up
>>> that there should not be the risk you fear and it will fix a FATE
>>> instance.
>>
>> ping
>
> I asked that a warning be added to either configure output or to
> runtime (similar to the warning if you don't specifically disable asm,
> but yasm wasn't found) that you'll get useless performance. Maybe link
> it so that an explicit --disable-asm or --disable-inline-asm is
> required, and it's not possible for HAVE_YASM as well as
> HAVE_INLINE_ASM to both be disabled without specifically being told to
> do so on the configure commandline.

That is already the case simply by virtue of HAVE_YASM having that
property.  Inline asm is enabled automatically by default if the
compiler supports it.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
[email protected]
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