[x264-devel] Solaris 10x86 AMD and SSSE3 bug

Mike Moya moyman at ecn.purdue.edu
Thu Aug 12 23:03:10 CEST 2010


On Aug 12, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:

>> Something in the x264 code is incorrectly defining SSSE3 support.
> 
> x264 queries your processor to determine what extensions it supports.
> It does not "define" anything.
> 
> But there is clearly something incredibly broken with your system:

It doesn't matter the system. I tried 5 different AMD processors and
all failed the same way. Intel processors work as expected. I have some 
300-400 different packages compiled and working normally. It can't be 
that broken?
> 
>> # ./x264 --version
>> ld.so.1: x264: fatal: hardware capability unsupported: 0x400000  [ SSSE3 ]
> 
> --version doesn't even reach any CPU-specific code, nor does it call
> CPU detection.  Furthermore, the error message printed there is not an
> x264 error message.

the option doesn't matter. The message is the OS telling me it can't execute
a binary with SSSE3 specific code. 
--mike


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