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

[David DeHaven]

(crawling out from under a massive pile of work...)

NASM CVS HEAD includes my alignment fix, currently reports version  
2.06rc2. Current binaries posted are 2.06rc1, so the next release (and  
subsequent 2.06 final) will have the fix.

-DrD-

> 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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