[XviD-devel] freebsd build test

[trbarry at trbarry.com]

Sorry I cannot remember the details but some earlier nasm releases would
generate incorrect SSE2 code for "movd eax, xmm6".  It caused no end of
confusion for me when trying to develop a faster SSE2 Sad16.

- Tom


| -----Original Message-----
| From: xvid-devel-bounces at xvid.org
| [mailto:xvid-devel-bounces at xvid.org]On
| Behalf Of Edouard Gomez
| Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:24 AM
| To: xvid-devel at xvid.org
| Subject: Re: [XviD-devel] freebsd build test
|
|
| Michael Nottebrock (michaelnottebrock at gmx.net) wrote:
| > One thing I did notice is the requirement in the
| nasm-version - was this
| > chosen because nobody ever tested xvid with earlier
| releases of nasm or
| > because earlier nasm-versions are known to produce broken
| code? I tested
| > 0.9.1 with nasm 0.98.33 and it seems to compile and work
| (encoding/decoding
| > with mplayer/mencoder, transcode, included
| regression-tests) just fine.
|
| The nasm requirement is the lower nasm version i could test
| successfully
| on my box and sourceforge compile farm. The only lower version i could
| test (but with failure) has been 0.98.28.
|
| I'll lower the nasm requirement to 33 patch version. thx
|
| --
| Edouard Gomez