[XviD-devel] xvid yasm dependency (Ubuntu)
Michael Militzer
michael at xvid.org
Sat May 19 17:57:31 CEST 2007
Hi,
yasm has been successfully tested with the x86/32 code too, so it should be
no problem using it. Actually, nasm is used mainly for historical reasons
because all the x86/32 code had been developed with it.
yasm supports x86 platform only. The PPC code is compiled with gcc...
Regards,
Michael
Quoting Loïc Martin <loic.martin3 at gmail.com>:
> Michael Militzer a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> there's Altivec/PPC specific code in the ppc_asm subdirectories. Further,
>> specific assembly code for Intel Itanium platform is also included
>> (ia64_asm subdirectories). This code is specific to ARCH_IS_PPC and
>> ARCH_IS_IA64 defines respectively.
>>
>> Nasm is used for the standard x86/32 assembly code (x86_asm subdir). Yasm
>> is required to assemble the x86/64 code (x86_64_asm).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael
> Thanks for the details. On i386, though, I'm using yasm - is it a
> problem (I've verified it works, the speed change by a factor of 3 while
> using it or not in building the package).
>
> Is there a problem using yasm for i386? What are the avantages of nasm
> over yasm?
>
> Also, will yasm also work for powerpc?
>
> Thanks,
> Loïc
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