Bug#498397: vlc segfaults during test run in build process on mips resulting in build failure

[Thiemo Seufer]

peter green wrote:
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>> 106: void av_free_static(void)
>> 107: {
>> 108:    while(last_static){
>> 109:	    av_freep(&array_static[--last_static]);
>> 110:    }
>> 111:    av_freep(&array_static);
>> 112: }
>>
>> A segfault in line 108 is, uhm, strange.
>>   
> Agreed, either gdb is misbehaving or something very weired is going on.
>
>
> Either way something needs to be done about this for lenny, since it  
> looks like the crash is happening in the unloading of libavcodec (at  
> least that is my interpretation of the bottom lines of the backtrace) is  
> there any way to stop libavcoded getting unloaded?

libavcodec is miscompiled. Since gcc-4.3 the compiler defaults to non-PIC
code. I'm currently testing the attached patch.


Thiemo
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