[XviD-devel] No yasm support?

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Takashi Mochizuki
<mochi at da2.so-net.ne.jp> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have tried to run bootstrap.sh, but it does not recognize my yasm.
> (MacOS X 10.5.5. + MacPort + yasm 0.7.0.2066)
>
> Every entry for yasm support has gone under generic build... why?
> I have 080820 snapshot src, and it has yasm entries under xvidcore/
> build/generic/configure.in.
> I also have read ChangeLog file, but it does not any information.
>
> //
>
> diff -u snippet btw 20080820 and 1.2.0 official following:
>
>  dnl NASM version requirement
> -minimum_nasm_patch_version=34
> -minimum_nasm_minor_version=99
> +minimum_nasm_minor_version=0
>  minimum_nasm_major_version=2
>  nasm_prog="nasm"
> -yasm_prog="yasm"
>
> :
>
>     dnl
>     dnl Checking for nasm compatible programs
> -   dnl yasm is preferred over nasm, because... i can use it
> -   dnl to profile assembly code ;-)
>     dnl
>
> etc...
>
> Takashi Mochizuki
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That's rather odd, especially since almost exactly at the same time,
x264 dropped nasm support in favor of yasm because nasm does not
correctly handle some SSE4 code ( pinsrd xmm0, [eax], 1 does not work,
for example).

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