[x264-devel] Re: [Patch] x264 on ppc without altivec

Loren Merritt lorenm at u.washington.edu
Mon Mar 5 19:37:15 CET 2007


On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Alexis Ballier wrote:

> So, to me, that means that the signal is caught by the thread, but
> also sent to the whole process which dies.
> I dont know if there is a way to play nicely with threads and signals
> and found it simpler to disable altivec at compile time, thus the patch
> I proposed.

How can it be related to threads? x264 doesn't use threads unless you
tell it to. And if merely linking in a threading library were sufficient 
to break it, then libmpeg2 in mencoder would also break.

--Loren Merritt

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