[mythtv-users] mmx code, and gcc

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue Jun 10 17:31:53 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 10 June 2003 04:15 pm, Örn Hansen wrote:
>   GCC, on my SuSE 8.2 system, doesn't allow the use of all registers, most
> noticeable the BX register in assembly.  In those assembly routines, where
> BREG is referenced, it complains and needs to be replaced with direct
> memory reference instead.  In other cases, such as the mmx code ... it's
> totally broken, and I simply disable it.  The CPU is Athlon XP.

This issue here is that Suse is distributing a broken Qt that adds -fPIC to 
the makefiles where it shouldn't be.

Isaac


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