weird gcc voodoo

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:30:35 PDT 2004


Scribbling feverishly on April 27, Net Llama! managed to emit:
> Good evening,
> I'm attempting to compile jpeg-mmx, and its bombing with this error:
> jcdctmgr.c: In function `forward_DCT_x86float32':
> jcdctmgr.c:432: `asm' operand requires impossible reload
> jcdctmgr.c: In function `forward_DCT_mmx':
> jcdctmgr.c:497: `asm' operand requires impossible reload
> make: *** [jcdctmgr.o] Error 1

Eew. This is extremely low-level stuff -- either jpeg-mmx wants gcc
to generate invalid register-loads or gcc is broken. I'm guessing
jpeg-mmx is borken (apologies to David Bandel).

Kurt
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