[XviD-devel] Mach-O and SECTION .rodata

[Michael Militzer]

Hi,

that's good news indeed. I have added a note in the README.

The easiest solution will certainly be to check for latest versions of yasm/
nasm in ./configure as soon as new releases containing the bug fix will
become available.

Regards,
Michael


Quoting Takashi Mochizuki <mochi at da2.so-net.ne.jp>:

> Hew! Cool.
> Now MacOS X can process asm code without alignment hack. (latest nasm
> also has that bug though)
>
> How about to describe it in README? like:
> - yasm 0.7.99.2161 or later is required for MacOS X build. -
>
> Takashi
>
> On 2008/12/08, at 3:53, David DeHaven wrote:
>
>>
>>>>> After a few hour search, I have found
>>>>> -   
>>>>> <http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2008-August/015984.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Directive ALIGN for SECTION .rodata may not function well - under
>>>>> "some" MacOS X; at least my mac.
>>>>> (It seems to be, not yasm/nasm issue though... by ld64?)
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to go out on a limb here and say ld64 is doing exactly
>>>> what
>>>> it's supposed to do and the bug is in the mach-o object code in
>>>> nasm/
>>>> yasm.
>>>
>>> Seems I was right. In yasm/modules/objfmts/macho/macho-objfmt.c if I
>>> force address alignment in macho_objfmt_calc_sectsize then it builds
>>> and runs just fine using .rodata instead of .text.
>>>
>>> Running xvid_bench right now and it hasn't crashed yet...
>>
>> Patch was submitted to yasm-devel and is now in yasm SVN HEAD (as of
>> r2161). I built xvid_bench with it and it ran just fine.
>>
>> -DrD-
>>
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