[x264-devel] Building x264 for iPhoneOS5.0 using ARM NEON extensions

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David Liepelt <dl030 at hdm-stuttgart.de> writes:

> After a little bit of research I could build x264 for iOS 5
> successfully. Without inline assembly (--disable-asm) everything works
> fine but of course very slow due to missing hardware support. When
> inline assembly is enabled the linker warns "ld: warning: ARM function
> not 4-byte aligned:" Ignoring this message and using the library
> anyway leads to a crash (SIGSYS) while initialization. Anyone know how
> to fix this?

Try this patch:

diff --git a/common/arm/asm.S b/common/arm/asm.S
index 8e70403..4220663 100644
--- a/common/arm/asm.S
+++ b/common/arm/asm.S
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ ELF     .eabi_attribute 25, \val
 
         .macro function name
         .global EXTERN_ASM\name
+        .align  2
 EXTERN_ASM\name:
 ELF     .hidden \name
 ELF     .type   \name, %function

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