gcc 3.0, glibc 2.2, etc.

[Christophe Massiot]

At 23:27 +0100 9/03/01, Bernardo Innocenti wrote :

>  It works fine with XFree 4.02+, kernel 2.4.2, glibc 2.2 and gcc 2.96rh.

Most people have problems with gcc 2.96rh.

>  - using the latest gcc 3.0 snapshots, the build fails in
>    "video_decoder/video_decoder.c" because gcc does not like the
>    operand constraints of the assembly macros in AddBlock() and
>    CopyBlock(). I've looked into it and it seems that p_data is
>    incorrectly specified as an output operand. AFAIK, the output
>    is the return value that the asm espression is given when the
>    surrounding C code references it. Moving p_data along with the
>    other input operands fixed the compilation for me. I also
>    suspect that those asm macros should specify the registers that
>    they are clobbering and the list should probably include "memory"
>    because the code modifies memory data pointed to by p_data.
>
>  - the file "include/input_ext-dec.h" uses memcpy() without including
>    <string.h> before, so I get a warning for a missing prototype
>    and probably slightly less efficient code because memcpy() might
>    be implemented with a smart macro in some versions of glibc;
>
>  - the same happens in "include/input.h" for memset();
>
>  - src/input/input_ext-intf.c:121: warning: deprecated use of label
>    at end of compound statement;

Thanks for your report. I'll make sure that these are fixed.


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Christophe Massiot.